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Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
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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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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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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When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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