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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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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The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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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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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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