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

James A. Froude
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“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.”

James A. Froude
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“Human improvement is from within outward.”

James A. Froude
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“The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.”

James A. Froude
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“Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.”

James A. Froude
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“In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.”

James A. Froude
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“A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.”

James A. Froude
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“Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.”

James A. Froude
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“The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.”

James A. Froude
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“We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.”

James A. Froude
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“As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.”

James A. Froude
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“Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.”

James A. Froude
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“The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.”

James A. Froude
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“The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.”

James A. Froude
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