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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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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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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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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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Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes?.. They have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance... There is something so very dreadful, so Satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.
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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
John Henry Newman
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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God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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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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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
John Henry Newman
There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
John Henry Newman
Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one style is a thinking out into language.
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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
John Henry Newman
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
John Henry Newman
When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
John Henry Newman
We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
John Henry Newman
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
John Henry Newman
