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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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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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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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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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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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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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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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear 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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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.
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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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