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James Anthony Froude [1818-1894] English

Rank: 105
Historian

James Anthony Froude FRSE was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine. From his upbringing amidst the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, Froude intended to become a clergyman, but doubts about the doctrines of the Anglican church, published in his scandalous 1849 novel The Nemesis of Faith, drove him to abandon his religious career.

Age, Alone, Best, Death, Imagination, Nature, Positive, Religion, Science, Society, Sports, Strength

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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.	Death, Sports	101
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.	Age	102
The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.	Nature, Religion	103
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.	Best	104
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.		105
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.		106
We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.	Alone	107
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.	Science	108
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.		109
The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.	Society	110
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.	Imagination	111
In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.	Positive	112
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.		113
Fear is the parent of cruelty.		114
Human improvement is from within outward.		115
Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.	Strength	116
No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.		117
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.		118
The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.		119
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.		120
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.		121
As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.		122

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