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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.
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 as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision.
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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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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear 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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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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To discover and to teach are distinct functions they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
John Henry Newman
Time hath a taming hand.
John Henry Newman
If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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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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Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
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