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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.

John Henry Newman

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Judgment Matter Said
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
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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Blessing Dream Sacrifice
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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Beautiful Moral Perfect
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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Dear Lord Love Shining
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Catholic Love Soul
Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Angel Purpose
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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Certainty Creeps Soar
We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Attitude Friends Inspirational
Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Change Life Positive
Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Catholic Heaven Part
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Men Nature Science
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Act Since Wish
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Animal Religious Vegetarian
Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Down Dwell People
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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Anxiety Detail Teacher

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