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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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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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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When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
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Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this first, that they have done no harm next, that they have no power whatever of resistance it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which makes their sufferings so especially touching.
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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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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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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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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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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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A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
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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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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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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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