Frederic William Farrar (1831–1903) was a cleric of the Church of England, schoolteacher and author. He was a pallbearer at the funeral of Charles Darwin in 1882. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles secret society.
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No soul can preserve the bloom and delicacy of its existence without lonely musings and silent prayer, and the greatness of this necessity is in proportion to the greatness of evil.
—Frederic William Farrar
Topics: Meditation
No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.
—Frederic William Farrar
Topics: Eternity
There is only one real failure possible; and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
—Frederic William Farrar
Topics: Failure, Mistakes, Failures
Man’s liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of his neighbors.
—Frederic William Farrar
Topics: Liberty
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is “folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death.” But with common sense, it is wisdom; with method, it is power; with charity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
—Frederic William Farrar
Topics: Common Sense, Knowledge
Age and sorrow have the gift of reading the future by the past.
—Frederic William Farrar
Topics: Futurity, Past
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