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Calculation never made a hero.

John Henry Newman

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
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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Dominion Love Powerful Strong
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Dogma Fall Men
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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Evil Excess Substance
Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Arguments People Sympathies
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Act Since Wish
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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God Love Voice
Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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Break Cost Sacrifice Through
To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
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Action Done Practice
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Catholic Love Soul
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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Eye Religious Waiting
I wonder what day I shall die on – one passes year by year over one’s death day, as one might pass over one’s grave.
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Death might Years
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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Drawing Prayer Spiritual
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
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
Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Enquiry Modesty Religious

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