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When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
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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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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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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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 ... He has not created me for naught ... If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about.
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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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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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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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All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
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