To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANIt is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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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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I wonder what day I shall die on – one passes year by year over one’s death day, as one might pass over one’s grave.
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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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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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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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Calculation never made a hero.
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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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Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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