There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
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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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
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It is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.
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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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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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You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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