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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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“Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion. When, when shall we learn that they are governed by laws as inexorable as physical laws, and that a man can as easily refuse to obey what has power over him as a steel atom can resist the magnet?”

Men Mind Self Body Law Refuse Attraction Atoms Steel Vary Magnet Inexorable Self Power Susceptibility Repulsion Attraction And Repulsion

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.”

Men Law Desire Good Man Interfere Restraint

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects

“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

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

Humans Law Eternal Eternity Copies Imperfection Imperfect

Book:Calvinism

Source: Calvinism

“History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.”

Law Fall Voice Moral Opinion Forever Written Century Morality Eternity Manners Creeds Tablets Moral Law Rise And Fall

Book:Short studies on Greate Subjects

Source: Short studies on Greate Subjects

“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.”

Has Beens Law Simple Mankind Greatness Willing Ready Simplicity True Greatness

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects

“Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.”

Knows Law Practice

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects

About the Author

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

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