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genius james anthony froude

James Anthony Froude

The historian James Anthony Froude wrote: “The worth of a man must be measured by his life, not by his failure under a singular and peculiar trial. Peter the apostle, though forewarned, three times denied his Master on the first alarm of danger; yet that Master, who knew his nature in its strength and in its weakness, chose him.

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genius james anthony froude

James Anthony Froude

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last.

genius james anthony froude

James Anthony Froude

It remains a lesson to all time, that goodness, though the indispensable adjunct to knowledge, is no substitute for it; that when conscience undertakes to dictate beyond its province, the result is only the more monstrous.

genius james anthony froude

James Anthony Froude

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.

genius james anthony froude

James Anthony Froude

It often seems to me as if History was like a child's box of letters, with which we can spell any word we please. We have only to pick out such letters as we want, arrange them as we like, and say nothing about those which do not suit our purpose.

genius james anthony froude

James Anthony Froude

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

genius james anthony froude

James Anthony Froude

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.