To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANAll men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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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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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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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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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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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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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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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