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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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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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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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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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Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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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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The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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 ... He has not created me for naught ... If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about.
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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes?.. They have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance... There is something so very dreadful, so Satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.
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