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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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A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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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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Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes?.. They have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance... There is something so very dreadful, so Satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.
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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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