Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANMan is emphatically self-made.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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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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In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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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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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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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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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.
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I wonder what day I shall die on – one passes year by year over one’s death day, as one might pass over one’s grave.
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