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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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“Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.”

World Spirit Evil Hours Dangerous Deceit Sincerity Insincerity Evil Spirits

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects

“Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according to what he thinks, but according to what he is .”

Thinking Men World Real Opinion This World Real Men

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“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

“For me this world was neither so high nor so low as the Church would have it; chequered over with its wild light shadows, I could love it and all the children of it, more dearly, perhaps, because it was not all light.”

World Children Light Church This World Lows Shadow

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble.”

Knows Men World Should Has Beens I Can Wish Successful

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.”

Ifs World Happiness This World Complaining Portions

Book:Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life 1795-1835

Source: Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life 1795-1835

“We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.”

World Loneliness Leave Me Alone Home Plate

Author:James Anthony Froude

“The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.”

World Believe Persons Lying Nature Secret

Author:James Anthony Froude

“To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.”

World Happiness Purpose This World

Author:James Anthony Froude

About the Author

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

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