It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLife 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.
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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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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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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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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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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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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
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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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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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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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