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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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It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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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.
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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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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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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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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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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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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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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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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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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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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision.
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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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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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