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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
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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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When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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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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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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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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To discover and to teach are distinct functions they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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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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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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I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.
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An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
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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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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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