Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANMan is emphatically self-made.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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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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An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
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Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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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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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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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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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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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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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
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