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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
John Henry Newman
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John Henry Newman
Age: 89 †
Born: 1801
Born: February 21
Died: 1890
Died: August 11
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I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain.
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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
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There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one style is a thinking out into language.
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Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.
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When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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