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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

John Henry Newman

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Change Life Spiritual
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Death might Years
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Men Nature Science
Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel’s) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Angel Beautiful Light
Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Faith Hazards Sacrifice
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Dominion Love Powerful Strong
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Depth Height Way
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Change Inspirational Wish
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Act Since Wish
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Church Hands Thinking
Go down again – I dwell among the people.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Down Dwell People
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Memories Treatise Wisdom
Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Doe Guilt Responsibility
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Angel Condolences Sympathy
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Exercise Friends Love Men
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Break Cost Sacrifice Through

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