Quotes by James Anthony Froude

James Anthony Froude

A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking; and even dreams themselves may be turned to beauty, by favoured men to whom nature has given the powers of casting them into form.

Dream

Men

Would Be

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Ideas

Persons

Reason

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A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

Attention

Men

Two

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

Acceptance

Learning

Life

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Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads him with blessings; she fills him with the fruits of a well-spent life; and, surrounded by his children and his children’s children, she rocks him softly away to a grave, to which he is followed with blessings. God forbid we should not call it beautiful.

Beautiful

Children

Summer

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But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who had the right on their side.

Lying

Running

Strength

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Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

Inevitable

Merit

Sequence

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Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.

Charity

Giving

Half

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Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.

Character

Courage

Hands

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

Crime

Offense

Prison

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