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• To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he was doing, and expecting so much from it, would not the tide ebb as strongly as it was flowing? It is a rash game this setting our hearts on any future beyond what we have our own selves control over. Things do not walk as we settle with ourselves they ought to walk, and to hope is almost the correlative of to be disappointed.

  James Anthony Froude

  Heart, Self, Games

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.54

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• I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms.

  James Anthony Froude

  Spiritual, Thinking, Bird

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.59

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• Look not to have your sepulchre built in after ages hy the same foolish hands which still ever destroy the living prophet. Small honour for you if they do build it; and may be they never will build it.

  James Anthony Froude

  Hands, Age, Looks

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.141

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• For me this world was neither so high nor so low as the Church would have it; chequered over with its wild light shadows, I could love it and all the children of it, more dearly, perhaps, because it was not all light.

  James Anthony Froude

  Children, Light, Shadow

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.162

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• Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

  James Anthony Froude

  Art, Experience, Moral

  James Anthony Froude (1869). “Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St. Andrews, March 19, 1869”, p.8

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• I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.

  James Anthony Froude

  Heart, Cutting, Blood

  "Doubting Clerics : From James Anthony Froude to Robert Elsmere via George Eliot". Book by Rosemary Ashton, 1989.

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• Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.

  James Anthony Froude

  Children, Men, Woe

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.124

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• Our thoughts and our conduct are our own.

  James Anthony Froude

  Character, Our Thoughts

  James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.342

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• It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with.

  James Anthony Froude

  Temptation, Soul, Rising

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.182

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• In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections--we thank God that we are not like our fathers.

  James Anthony Froude

  Spiritual, Father, Progress

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• Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

  James Anthony Froude

  Sacrifice, Religion, Firsts

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.240, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• We live merely on the crust or rind of things.

  James Anthony Froude

  Life

  James Anthony Froude (1914). “Short studies on great subjects”

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• In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

  James Anthony Froude

  Sacrifice, Everyday Things, Law

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.238, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty

  James Anthony Froude

  Feet, Age, Twenties

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