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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.
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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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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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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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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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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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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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