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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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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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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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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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I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
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Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this first, that they have done no harm next, that they have no power whatever of resistance it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which makes their sufferings so especially touching.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
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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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With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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