Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANGood 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.
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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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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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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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It is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Dear Lord…shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul…Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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