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James Anthony Froude

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Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.


— James Anthony Froude


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


— James Anthony Froude


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Fear is the parent of cruelty.


— James Anthony Froude


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


— James Anthony Froude


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


— James Anthony Froude


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Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.


— James Anthony Froude


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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.


— James Anthony Froude


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Human improvement is from within outward.


— James Anthony Froude


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


— 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.


— James Anthony Froude


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On the death of his adversary Freeman in 1892 Froude was appointed on the recommendation of Lord Salisbury to succeed him as Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford. Froude intended with these writings "to kindle in the public mind at home that imaginative enthusiasm for the Colonial idea of which his own heart was full. Carlyle also made claims of ownership over her uncle's papers and over the profits from their publication.

Inspired by Thomas Carlyle Froude's historical writings were often fiercely polemical earning him a number of outspoken opponents. Froude continued to be controversial up until his death for his Life of Carlyle which he publiJames Anthony Frouded along with personal writings of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle.

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