"The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness."

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Source : James Anthony Froude (1875). “Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series”, p.14

James Anthony Froude

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“We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man is organic with the world. His inner life moulds the environment and is itself also deeply affected by it. The one acts upon the other and every abiding change in the life of man is the result of these mutual reactions.”
“Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.”
“A woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,' - and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman's wife.”

Source : Kate Greenaway (1910). “Kate Greenaway: Sixteen Examples in Colour of the Artist's Work”
“The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength”
“You cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things.”
“People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had”
“Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.”

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