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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 The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

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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.

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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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