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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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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
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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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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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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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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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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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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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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Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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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.
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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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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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