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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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It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.
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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
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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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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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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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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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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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