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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 mankindBut 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