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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. — James Anthony Froude

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair. — James Anthony Froude

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it. — James Anthony Froude

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. — James Anthony Froude

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows. — James Anthony Froude

Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous. — James Anthony Froude

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side. — James Anthony Froude

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

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God. — James Anthony Froude

We live merely on the crust or rind of things. — James Anthony Froude

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial. — James Anthony Froude

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. — James Anthony Froude

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive. — James Anthony Froude

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them. — James Anthony Froude

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. — James Anthony Froude

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue. — James Anthony Froude

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line. — James Anthony Froude

Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway,
The passion and infirmity of age. — James Anthony Froude

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society. — James Anthony Froude

I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth. — James Anthony Froude

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence. — James Anthony Froude

Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm. — James Anthony Froude

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty. — James Anthony Froude

I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood . — James Anthony Froude

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. — James Anthony Froude

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. — James Anthony Froude

Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality. — James Anthony Froude

The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all. — James Anthony Froude

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. — James Anthony Froude

To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world. — James Anthony Froude

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith. — James Anthony Froude

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties. — James Anthony Froude

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing. — James Anthony Froude

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. — James Anthony Froude

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity. — James Anthony Froude

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. — James Anthony Froude

Mistakes are often the best teachers. — James Anthony Froude

Thy plain and open nature sees mankind
But in appearance, not what they are. — James Anthony Froude

Human improvement is from within outward. — James Anthony Froude

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease. — James Anthony Froude

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self. — James Anthony Froude

Fear is the parent of cruelty. — James Anthony Froude

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. — James Anthony Froude

We call heaven our home, as the best name we know to give it. — James Anthony Froude

Justice without wisdom is impossible. — James Anthony Froude

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society. — James Anthony Froude

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with. — James Anthony Froude

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible. — James Anthony Froude

Our thoughts and our conduct are our own. — James Anthony Froude

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion. — James Anthony Froude

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. — James Anthony Froude

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art. — James Anthony Froude

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

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with. — James Anthony Froude

Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys. — James Anthony Froude

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. — James Anthony Froude

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

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

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal. — James Anthony Froude

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous. — James Anthony Froude

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone. — James Anthony Froude

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. — James Anthony Froude

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. — James Anthony Froude

Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them. — James Anthony Froude

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. — James Anthony Froude

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness. — James Anthony Froude

Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character. — James Anthony Froude

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies. — James Anthony Froude