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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.

John Henry Newman

By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Garden Peace Spiritual
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Dominion Love Powerful Strong
This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Guide Judging Men Party
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Break Cost Sacrifice Through
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Act Since Wish
Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Expression Style Thinking
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Dream Ideas Religion
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Change Inspirational Wish
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Aboriginal Christ Vicars
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Life Pain Success
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Catholic Love Soul
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Animal Religious Vegetarian
Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Arguments People Sympathies
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Change Life Spiritual
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Art Beauty Nature
Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Artist Better Lions

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