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We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
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I could never fear a God who kept a hell prison-house. No, not though he flung me there because I refused. There is a power stronger than such a one; and it is possible to walk unscathed even in the burning furnace.
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You cannot reason people into loving those whom they are not drawn to love; they cannot reason themselves into it; and there are some contrarieties of temper which are too strong even for the obligations of relationship.
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I believe that fallen creatures perish, perish for ever, for only good can live, and good has not been theirs; but how durst men forge our Saviour's words "eternal death" into so horrible a meaning? And even if he did use other words, and seem to countenance such a meaning for them (and what witness have we that He did, except that of men whose ignorance or prejudice might well have interpreted these words wrongly as they did so many others?)
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Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.
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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.
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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.
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The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.
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Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.
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Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.
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Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.
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No vehement error can exist in this world with impunity...
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The secrets of nature have been opened out to us on a thousand lines; and men of science of all creeds can pursue side by side their common investigations.
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Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.
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To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
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Facts can be accurately known to us only by the most rigid observation and sustained and scrutinizing skepticism.
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My friends at Rhodes made me so. I cost as much as sixteen gold gods of average size.
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The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.
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There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.
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Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.
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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.
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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.
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Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.
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Superstition, hero worship, ignorance of the laws of probability, religious, political, or speculative prejudice. One or other of these has tended from the beginning to give us distorted pictures.
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The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
James Anthony Froude
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Born:
April 23, 1818
Died:
October 20, 1894
(aged 76)
Bio:
James Anthony Froude was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine.
Known for:
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)
Oceana, or, England and her colonies (1886)
Short studies on great subjects (1864)
Life and letters of Erasmus (1894)
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