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Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
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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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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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.
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The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma no man will be a martyr for a conclusion.
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How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
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God has created me to do Him some definite service He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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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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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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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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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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God has created me to do Him some definite service He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another, I have my mission ... He has not created me for naught ... If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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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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