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1818–1894 England

James Anthony Froude (April 23 1818 – October 20 1894) was a controversial English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine.

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Also known as: Froude, James Anthony, J. A. Froude

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I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

The landlord may become a direct oppressor. He may care nothing for the people, and have no object but to squeeze the most that he can out of them fairly or unfairly.

I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.

On the writing of his novel The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

Change is strong, but habit is strong too; and you cannot change the old for new, like a garment.

The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

The men that write books, Carlyle says, are now the world's priests, the spiritual directors of mankind.

The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.

Bunyan (1880)

You will never have perfect men, Plato says, till you have perfect circumstances.

The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

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

Every one of us, whatever his speculative opinions, knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.

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

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.

The Science of History (1864)

Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion.

The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

Life complete, is lived in two worlds; the one inside, and the one outside.

The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

The absolute worth of goodness is seen as distinct from power; such beings as these demon gods could not he the highest beings.

The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

Belief is the result of the proportion, whatever it he, in which the many elements which go to make the human being are combined.

The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

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.

There is nothing in it but what men might have written; much, oh much, which it would drive me mad to think any but men, and most mistaken men, had written.

The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.

The four eights, that ideal of operative felicity, are here (New Zealand) a realized fact.

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies; but he cannot wholly escape their influence.

The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon (1891)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James Anthony Froude (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.