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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANIt is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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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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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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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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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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