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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANIn 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Time hath a taming hand.
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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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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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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.
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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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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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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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.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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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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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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