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 More Quotes by James Anthony Froude More Quotes From James Anthony Froude Human improvement is from within outward. James Anthony Froude improvementhumanscharacter You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. James Anthony Froude motivationalinspirationallife As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities. James Anthony Froude learningacceptancelife 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 honestyintegritysports The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. James Anthony Froude testsrealbelief Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous. James Anthony Froude deceitevilworld When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul rushes together in the intensity of the one feeling; thought, reflection, conscience, duty, the past, the future, they are names to her light as the breath which speaks them; her soul is full. James Anthony Froude reflectionheartpast The essence of greatness is neglect of the self. James Anthony Froude greatnessacceptanceself 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 lightpastfall 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 caringtrialswaiting Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity. James Anthony Froude absurditydominionignorance Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. James Anthony Froude successmotivationalinspirational 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 old-friendstearsheart Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. James Anthony Froude fearmotivationalinspirational I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me to reverence. James Anthony Froude crushheartmay We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing. James Anthony Froude certaintyfaithpeace Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal. James Anthony Froude originalitynaturemen Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according to what he thinks, but according to what he is . James Anthony Froude realmenthinking The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so. James Anthony Froude moralsimplestories What is right or duty without power ? To tell a man it is his duty to submit his judgment to the judgment of the church, is like telling a wife it is her duty to love her husband a thing easy to say, but meaning simply nothing. Affection must be won, not commanded. James Anthony Froude wifehusbandmen
