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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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Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality.

The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with.

The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

To man alone the doings of man are wrong; the evil which is with us dies out beyond us; we are but a part of nature, and blend with the rest in her persevering beauty.

The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

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

We call heaven our home, as the best name we know to give it.

The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

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.

The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

How true it is that arguments have only power over us while the temper is disposed to listen to them!

The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

Our thoughts and our conduct are our own.

In the great cities, where men gather in their crowds and the work of the world is done, and the fate of the world is determined, there it is that the ideas of succeeding eras breed and grow and gather form and power, and grave out the moulds for the stamp of after ages.

The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

Yes, genius alone is the Redeemer; it bears our sorrows, it is crowned with thorns for us; the children of genius are the church militant, the army of the human race.

The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

The conviction of the martyr that the stake is the gate of Paradise, diminishes the dignity of the suffering in proportion to its strength. If it be absolute certainty, the trial is absolutely nothing.

The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

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.

The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

I begin to look about me to listen to what had to be said on many sides of the question, and try, as far as I could, to give it all fair hearing.

The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

It was brought home to me that two men may be as sincere, as earnest, as faithful, as uncompromising, and yet hold opinions far asunder as the poles.

The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

Once in our lives we have all to choose. More or less we have all felt once the same emotions.

The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

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