James Anthony Froude Quotes

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  You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

  James Anthony Froude

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• 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

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  Tags in Killing, Men

• As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

  James Anthony Froude

  Topics in Ability

• To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

  James Anthony Froude

• We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

  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

• The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.

  James Anthony Froude

• The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

  James Anthony Froude

• The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

  James Anthony Froude

• Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

  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

• In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

  James Anthony Froude

• Human improvement is from within outward.

  James Anthony Froude

• A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

  James Anthony Froude

• The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

  James Anthony Froude

• The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

  James Anthony Froude

• Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.

  James Anthony Froude

• Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

  James Anthony Froude

• Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

  James Anthony Froude

• Fear is the parent of cruelty.

  James Anthony Froude

  Topics in Fear

James Anthony Froude (20)

Birth:	23rd April, 1818
Death:	20th October, 1894
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Historian

About

James Anthony Froude was born in Dartington, Devon, England. He was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine. He studied at Oriel College, Oxford. He was elected a fellow of Exeter College. He thereafter made his living by his pen until in 1892 he returned to Oxford as regius professor of modern history. He wrote several books include: Shadows of the clouds, The Nemesis of Faith(novel), Essays in literature & history, Calvinism, Gems from Froude, Thomas Carlyle, The Knights Templars, Life and letters of Erasmus, Luther, Lord Beaconsfield, and The Reign of Mary Tudor.

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