James Anthony Froude on Character
1818–1894 England
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Every one of us, whatever his speculative opinions, knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.
Human improvement is from within outwards.
In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
Every one of us, whatever our speculative opinions, knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.
Our thoughts and our conduct are our own.
That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.
Short Studies on Great Subjects (1907)