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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
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John Henry Newman
Age: 89 †
Born: 1801
Born: February 21
Died: 1890
Died: August 11
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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.
John Henry Newman
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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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma no man will be a martyr for a conclusion.
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.
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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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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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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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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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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 reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
John Henry Newman
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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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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