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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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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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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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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 love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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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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All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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