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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.
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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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear 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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I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain.
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The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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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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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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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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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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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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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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When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
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Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
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