Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
- James Anthony Froude
Doubt, Goes, Than, Reserve
The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
- James Anthony Froude
Society, Poor, Inequalities, Human Society
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
- James Anthony Froude
Best, Mistakes, Often, Wasted Time
Human improvement is from within outward.
- James Anthony Froude
Improvement, Human, Within, Outward
In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
- James Anthony Froude
Law, Things, Form, Everyday
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
Death, Never, Creatures, Amusing
No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
- James Anthony Froude
Feet, Been, Swept, Twenty
As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
- James Anthony Froude
Life, Learn, Our, Limits
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
- James Anthony Froude
Character, Dream, Hammer, Forge
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.
- James Anthony Froude
Reason, Always, Experiment, Calmness
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
- James Anthony Froude
Mistakes, Cost, Teaches, Slowly
We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
- James Anthony Froude
Alone, World, Leave, Enter
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
- James Anthony Froude
Against, His, Guard, Sympathies
The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
- James Anthony Froude
Better, Aware, Less, Morally
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
- James Anthony Froude
Children, Some, Finds, Childish
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
- James Anthony Froude
Real, Test, Practical, Effect
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
- James Anthony Froude
Imagination, Person, Idea, Possessed
Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
- James Anthony Froude
Strength, Long Run, Side, Superior
The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
- James Anthony Froude
Nature, World, Believes, The Secret Of
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
- James Anthony Froude
Greatness, Self, Neglect, Essence
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
- James Anthony Froude
Fear, Parent, Cruelty
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
- James Anthony Froude
Freedom, Will, Morality, Deny
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