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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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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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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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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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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel's) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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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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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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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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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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