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James A. Froude Quotes


An English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine.
James Anthony Froude (Froude rhymes with rood) (23 April 1818 – 20 October 1894) was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine. From his upbringing amidst the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, Froude intended to become a clergyman, but doubts about the doctrines of the Anglican church, published in his scandalous 1849 novel The Nemesis of Faith, drove him to abandon his religious career. Froude turned to writing history, becoming one of the best known historians of his time for his History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada. Inspired by Thomas Carlyle, Froude's historical writings were often fiercely polemical, earning him a number of outspoken opponents.

Here are some famous quotes by James A. Froude. 

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

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Mistakes are often the best teachers.

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Human improvement is from within outward.

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We enter the world alone we leave it alone.

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Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

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

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The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies.

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge one for yourself.

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Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain therefore to treat them as if they were equal.

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

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Philosophy goes no further than probabilities and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.