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Quotes by James Anthony Froude

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 (1818 - 1894)
 
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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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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 (1818 - 1894)
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Fear is the parent of cruelty.

James Anthony Froude (1818 - 1894)
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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 (1818 - 1894)
 
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Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

James Anthony Froude (1818 - 1894)
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Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore to treat them as if thy were equal.

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

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

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Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

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