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Man is emphatically self-made.

John Henry Newman

And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Angel Condolences Sympathy
Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Dark Light
Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Down Dwell People
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
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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Death might Years
Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Arguments People Sympathies
The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.
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Comprehensive Infinite Reason Spiritual
When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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Esteem Giving Needs Self
Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
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Bird Instruments Resources
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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Break Cost Sacrifice Through
The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Mother Religious Today
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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Change Inspirational Wish
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
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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Church Hands Thinking
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Arguing Believe Men
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Catholic Love Soul

Man is emphatically self-made.

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