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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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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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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I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
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It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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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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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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