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“Human improvement is from within outward.”
-- James Anthony Froude

#Improvement #Humans
“The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.”
-- James Anthony Froude

#Acceptance #Greatness #Self
“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.”
-- James Anthony Froude

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational
“As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.”
-- James Anthony Froude

#Life #Learning #Acceptance
“Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.”
-- James Anthony Froude

#Inspirational #Teacher #Mistake
“The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.”
-- James Anthony Froude

#Real #Tests #Belief
“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

#Sports #Honesty #Integrity
“Fear is the parent of cruelty.”
-- James Anthony Froude

#Fear #Parent #Cruelty
“I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting among the elements of humanity, she has brought beings into existence who have no business here; who can do none of her work, and endure none of her favours; whose life is only suffering; and whose action is one long protest against the ill foresight which flung them into consciousness.”
-- James Anthony Froude

#Children #Thinking #Long
“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.”
-- James Anthony Froude

#Strong #People #Reason
“Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea in its growth, unless we track its seed to the power which sowed it.”
-- James Anthony Froude

#Spring #Ideas #Track
“We call heaven our home, as the best name we know to give it.”
-- James Anthony Froude

#Home #Names #Giving
“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

#Children #Men #Woe
“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

#Caring #Waiting #Trials
“A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking; and even dreams themselves may be turned to beauty, by favoured men to whom nature has given the powers of casting them into form.”
-- James Anthony Froude

#Dream #Men #Would Be
“Women's eyes are rapid in detecting a heart which is ill at ease with itself, and, knowing the value of sympathy, and finding their own greatest happiness not in receiving it, but in giving it, with them to be unhappy is at once to be interesting.”
-- James Anthony Froude

#Heart #Eye #Knowing
“Our thoughts and our conduct are our own.”
-- James Anthony Froude

#Character
“Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.”
-- James Anthony Froude

#Selfish #Sage #Fool
“Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it; hunger, at least, is a reality...”
-- James Anthony Froude

#Struggle #Son #Reality
“Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which we ourselves can do, yet all has been unavailing, and we have only shown we cannot, not we will not, help ourselves; that often just then something comes, almost as if supernaturally, to settle for us, as if our guardian angel took pity on our perplexities, and then at last obtained leave to help us? And if it be so, then what might only be a coincidence becomes a call of Providence, a voice from Heaven, a command.”
-- James Anthony Froude

#Angel #Thinking #Voice
“Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.”
-- James Anthony Froude

#Heart #Old Friends #Tears
“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.”
-- James Anthony Froude

#Giving #Half #Charity
“The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.”
-- James Anthony Froude

#Endurance #Poor #Inequality
“Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.”
-- James Anthony Froude

#Mistake #Failure #Cost
“Now, to a single-minded man, who is either brave enough or reckless enough to surrender himself wholly to one idea, and look neither right nor left, but only forward, what earthly consequences may follow is not material. Persecution strengthens him; and so he is sure he is right, whether his course end in a prison or on a throne is no matter at all. But men of this calibre are uncommon in any age or in any country very uncommon in this age and this country.”
-- James Anthony Froude

#Country #Men #Ideas
“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

#Self #Soul #Immortality
“Look not to have your sepulchre built in after ages hy the same foolish hands which still ever destroy the living prophet. Small honour for you if they do build it; and may be they never will build it.”
-- James Anthony Froude

#Hands #Age #Looks
“For me this world was neither so high nor so low as the Church would have it; chequered over with its wild light shadows, I could love it and all the children of it, more dearly, perhaps, because it was not all light.”
-- James Anthony Froude

#Children #Light #Shadow
“Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.”
-- James Anthony Froude

#Art #Experience #Moral
“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

#Fall #Past #Light

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