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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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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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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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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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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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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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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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A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
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Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one style is a thinking out into language.
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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