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There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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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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The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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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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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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