Top 90 James Anthony Froude Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— James Anthony Froude

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2. “Mistakes are often the best teachers.”

— James Anthony Froude

3. “We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.”

— James Anthony Froude

4. “Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.”

— James Anthony Froude

5. “I am convinced with Plato, with St. Paul, with St. Augustine, with Calvin, and with Leibnitz, that this universe, and every smallest portion of it, exactly fulfils the purpose for which Almighty God designed it.”

— James Anthony Froude

6. “If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.”

— James Anthony Froude

7. “Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.”

— James Anthony Froude

8. “Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.”

— James Anthony Froude

9. “The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed.”

— James Anthony Froude

10. “We call heaven our home, as the best name we know to give it.”

— James Anthony Froude

11. “We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.”

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12. “The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.”

— James Anthony Froude

13. “Justice without wisdom is impossible.”

— James Anthony Froude

14. “There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.”

— James Anthony Froude

15. “I believe in God, not because the Bible tells me that he is, but because my heart tells me so; and the same heart tells me we can only have His peace with us if we love Him and obey Him, and that we can only he happy when we each love our neighbour better than ourselves.”

— James Anthony Froude

16. “Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.”

— James Anthony Froude

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

— James Anthony Froude

18. “The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.”

— James Anthony Froude

19. “Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.”

— James Anthony Froude

20. “We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.”

— James Anthony Froude

21. “History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.”

— James Anthony Froude

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

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23. “Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.”

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24. “The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.”

— James Anthony Froude

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25. “Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.”

— James Anthony Froude

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

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27. “Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.”

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28. “The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.”

— James Anthony Froude

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

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30. “Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.”

— James Anthony Froude

31. “Instead of man to love, we have a man-god to worship. From being the example of devotion, he is its object; the religion of Christ ended with his life, and left us instead but the Christian religion.”

— James Anthony Froude

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

— James Anthony Froude

33. “Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according to what he thinks, but according to what he is .”

— James Anthony Froude

34. “You cannot reason people into loving those whom they are not drawn to love; they cannot reason themselves into it; and there are some contrarieties of temper which are too strong even for the obligations of relationship.”

— James Anthony Froude

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35. “The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.”

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36. “Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.”

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

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38. “Fear is the parent of cruelty.”

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39. “Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.”

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40. “Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.”

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41. “I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the word teleiois, almost confirms this.”

— James Anthony Froude

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

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

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44. “Look not to have your sepulchre built in after ages hy the same foolish hands which still ever destroy the living prophet. Small honour for you if they do build it; and may be they never will build it.”

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45. “Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.”

— James Anthony Froude

46. “Our thoughts and our conduct are our own.”

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47. “The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God’s organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.”

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48. “Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.”

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49. “True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.”

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50. “Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them...”

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