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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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Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither.
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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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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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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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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
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