Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANSuch is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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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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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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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
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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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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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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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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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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
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Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
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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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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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 see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel’s) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
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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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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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The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.
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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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