And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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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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In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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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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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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