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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.

John Henry Newman

Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Catholic Love Soul
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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Decay Fickle Needs
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Art Beauty Nature
May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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Giving Long Support
When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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Esteem Giving Needs Self
Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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Believe Conviction Results
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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Guide Judging Men Party
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
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Angel Condolences Sympathy
All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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Giving Men Perspective
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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Judgment Matter Said
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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Passion Sky Struggle
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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Found Function Science
Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Enquiry Modesty Religious
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.
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Angel Beautiful Light
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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Memories Treatise Wisdom

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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