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James Anthony Froude was a British novelist born on April 23, 1818, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and died on October 20, 1894. He is renowned for his historical novels and biographical literature, particularly for his descriptions of British historical figures and events.

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“Once, once for all, if you would save your heart from breaking, learn this lesson once for all you must cease, in this world, to believe in the eternity of any creed or form at all. Whatever grows in time is a child of time, and is born and lives, and dies at its appointed day like ourselves.”

Ifs World Believe Heart Children Form Dies Grows Born This World Lessons Eternity Cease Creeds

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“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.”

Light Past Form Fall Vision Shadow Experience Vary

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects

“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.”

Ifs Men Needs May Dream Would Be Form Turns Given Waking Dreamer Casting

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

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

Form Law Sacrifice Duty Everyday Everyday Things

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects

“English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.”

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series

About the Author

Born: April 23, 1818
Died: October 20, 1894
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 114

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