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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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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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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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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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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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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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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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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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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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
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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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