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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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