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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.
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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.
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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
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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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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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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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