Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThere is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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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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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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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How many writers are there… who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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