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 NEWMANGo down again – I dwell among the people.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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Man is emphatically self-made.
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All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
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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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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
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