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Time hath a taming hand.

John Henry Newman

To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Found Function Science
Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
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Doe Guilt Responsibility
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Cures Evil Flagrant
Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
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Giving Inspire Religion
Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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Depth Height Way
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Act Since Wish
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Animal Religious Vegetarian
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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Change Inspirational Wish
Calculation never made a hero.
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Calculation Hero Made
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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Death might Years
O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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Fighting Shame Sin
Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Arguments People Sympathies
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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God Love Voice
Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Down Dwell People
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Men Nature Science
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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Certainty Creeps Soar

Time hath a taming hand.

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