“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.”

— James Anthony Froude , book The Nemesis of Faith

Letter IV
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

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