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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

John Henry Newman

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
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Cures Evil Flagrant
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Act Since Wish
An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
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Iron Teacher Winter
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
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
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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Change Inspirational Wish
Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
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Giving Inspire Religion
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 such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
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Done Law War
When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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Esteem Giving Needs Self
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Catholic Love Soul
Man is emphatically self-made.
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Made Men Self
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Art Beauty Nature
Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Arguments People Sympathies
Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
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Expression Style Thinking

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

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