When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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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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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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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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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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