By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANAn academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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