Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANTime hath a taming hand.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
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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 love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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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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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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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
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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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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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