We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANI shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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It’s really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, … The situation is just so tenuous with where it’s going to hit. You don’t want to take any chances.
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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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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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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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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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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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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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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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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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