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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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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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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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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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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
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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.
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Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither.
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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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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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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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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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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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