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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.

John Henry Newman

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Men Nature Science
Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Artist Better Lions
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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Judgment Matter Said
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Aboriginal Christ Vicars
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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Bird Instruments Resources
An 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.
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Iron Teacher Winter
Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Arguments People Sympathies
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
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Decay Fickle Needs
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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Church Hands Thinking
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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Blessing Dream Sacrifice
Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Down Dwell People
God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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Given Missions Priceless
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Catholic Love Soul
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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Expression Style Thinking
Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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Knowledge Mind Rewards
We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Attitude Friends Inspirational

Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.

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