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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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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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 ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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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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Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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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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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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When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
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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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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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The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma no man will be a martyr for a conclusion.
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