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The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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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I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain.
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How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
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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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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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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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