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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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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Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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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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Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
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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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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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