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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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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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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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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Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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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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When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
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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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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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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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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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I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
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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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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.
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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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True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.
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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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