James Anthony Froude Quotes
Top 68 wise famous quotes and sayings by James Anthony Froude
James Anthony Froude Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.
The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.
It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with.
Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.
Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.
A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.
Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality.
The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.
The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.
Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.
We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.
Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms.
Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.
The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed.
Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.
No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
We are complex, and therefore, in our natural state, inconsistent, beings, and the opinion of this hour need not be the opinion of the next.
Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.
Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.
I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me to reverence.