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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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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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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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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
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Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
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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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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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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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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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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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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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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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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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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.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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