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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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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.
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Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
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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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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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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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