| 23 Famous Quotes by James Anthony Froude
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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.”
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“Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as
prejudicial to society.
- James Anthony Froude,”
Crime Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Reciprocal Duties of State and Subjects
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“We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.”
Solitude Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Sea Studies
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“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.”
Reflection Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Sea Studies
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“Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and
mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.”
Teaching Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Education
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“A boy is better unborn than untaught.”
Teaching Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Education
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“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths
theater.”
Teaching Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Education
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“Fear is the parent of cruelty.”
Fear Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Party Politics
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“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”
Fear Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Party Politics
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“You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the
means he uses to frighten you.”
Fear Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Party Politics
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“In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive
duty.”
Duty Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Sea Studies
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“The moral system of the universe is like a document written in
alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.”
Morality Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Calvinism
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“Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and
provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.”
Morality Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Divus Caesar
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“There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.”
Nobility Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Calvinism
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“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.”
Experience Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects, Society in Italy in the Last Days of the Roman Republic
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“Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.”
Experience Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Education
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“Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.”
Experience Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Party Politics
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“To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.”
Will Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Calvinism
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“As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.”
Ability Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Education
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“There is no need to show your ability before everyone.”
Ability Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Education
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“Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every
assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.”
Philosophy Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Calvinism
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“Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.”
Ignorance Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Party Politics
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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.”
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James Anthony Froude Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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