Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANFaith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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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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To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
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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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All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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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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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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