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Brief about James Anthony Froude: By info that we know James Anthony Froude was born at 1970-01-01. And also James Anthony Froude is English Historian.

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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.

Tags: Death, Fellow, Wild

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Tags: Greatness, Neglect, Self

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

Tags: Best, Mistakes, Time

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

Tags: Freedom, Impossible, Morality

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Tags: Cannot, Idea, Possessed

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Tags: Age, Children, True

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

Tags: Learn, Life, Limits

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

Tags: Cost, Experience, Mistakes

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

Tags: Cruelty, Fear, Parent

Human improvement is from within outward.

Tags: Human, Outward, Within

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

Tags: Law, Positive, Sacrifice

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.

Tags: Between, Good, Off

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

Tags: Doubt, Goes, Philosophy

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

Tags: Belief, Reason, Science

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.

Tags: Found, Lie, Strength

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

Tags: Aware, Less, Virtue

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

Tags: Human, Life, Society

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.

Tags: Against, Duty, Guard

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Tags: Belief, Real, Test

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

Tags: Nature, Place, Religion
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