James A. Froude Quotes
An English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine.
(1818 - 1894)
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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
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Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
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As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
[Ability]
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But not long; for in the tedious minutes' exquisite interval - I'm on the rack; for sure the greatest evil man can know bears no proportion to this dread suspense.
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Calvinism has produced characters nobler and grander than any which republican Rome ever produced.
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Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.
[Courage]
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Crime is not punished as an offence against God, but as prejudicial to society.
[Crime]
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Every one of us, whatever our speculative opinions, knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.
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Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
[Experience]
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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
[Fear]
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Half the vices in the world rise out of cowardice, and one who is afraid of lying is usually afraid of nothing else.
[Lying]
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History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
[History]
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Human improvement is from within outward.
[Character]
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If we think of religion only as a means of escaping what we call the wrath to come, we shall not escape it; we are under the burden of death, if we care only for ourselves.
[Religion]
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In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
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Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
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Justice without wisdom is impossible.
[Justice]
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Literature happens to be the only occupation in which wages are not given in proportion to the goodness of the work done.
[Literature]
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Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
[Equality]
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Mistakes are often the best teachers.
[Adversity]
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