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


James Anthony Froude

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Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.
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JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE There is no need to show your ability before everyone.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE Fear is the parent of cruelty.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the poi...
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best ...
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE A boy is better unborn than untaught.
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JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and ...
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow c...
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from...
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intell...
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-c...
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best tea...
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE Human improvement is from within outward.
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 age...
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
JAMES A. FROUDE Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
JAMES A. FROUDE Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.
JAMES A. FROUDE As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
JAMES A. FROUDE The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
JAMES A. FROUDE You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
JAMES A. FROUDE Human improvement is from within outward.
JAMES A. FROUDE The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
JAMES A. FROUDE Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow c...
JAMES A. FROUDE The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world...
JAMES A. FROUDE The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
JAMES A. FROUDE No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages tw...
JAMES A. FROUDE In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
JAMES A. FROUDE The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.
JAMES A. FROUDE Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
JAMES A. FROUDE To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
JAMES A. FROUDE We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
JAMES A. FROUDE Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is alwa...
JAMES A. FROUDE A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
JAMES A. FROUDE The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
JAMES A. FROUDE Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
JAMES A. FROUDE [Thomas] Carlyle believed that every man has a special duty to do in this world. If he had been aske...
JAMES A. FROUDE Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
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ANTHONY DAVIS Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.
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ANTHONY BURGESS Every dogma has its day.
ANTHONY BURGESS The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
ANTHONY BURGESS Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of reti...
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ANTHONY BURGESS I didn't think; I experimented.
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