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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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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The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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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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I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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God has created me to do Him some definite service He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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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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Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.
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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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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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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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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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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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