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

— James Anthony Froude On the writing of his novel The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

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On the writing of his novel The Nemesis of Faith (1849), in a letter to Charles Kingsley (New Year's Day 1849), as quoted in Rosemary Ashton, Doubting Clerics: From James Anthony Froude to Robert Elsmere via George Eliot (1989) and Herbert Paul, The Life of Froude (1905), p. 47

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

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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.

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

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

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

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