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We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

James Anthony Froude

World

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

James Anthony Froude

Idea

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

James Anthony Froude

Age

Children

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

James Anthony Froude

Life

Limits

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

James Anthony Froude

Experience

Mistakes

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

James Anthony Froude

Fear

Cruelty

Human improvement is from within outward.

James Anthony Froude

Improvement

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

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.

James Anthony Froude

Enthusiasm

Feet

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

James Anthony Froude

Doubt

Philosophy

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.

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