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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma no man will be a martyr for a conclusion.
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God has created me to do Him some definite service He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.
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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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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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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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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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.
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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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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