Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANGrowth is the only evidence of life.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks.
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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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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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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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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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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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