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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.

John Henry Newman

Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Artist Better Lions
Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Change Life Positive
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Animal Religious Vegetarian
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.
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Passion Sky Struggle
Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Down Dwell People
Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Dark Light
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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Done Law War
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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Evil Excess Substance
To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
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Action Done Practice
By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Garden Peace Spiritual
Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel’s) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
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Angel Beautiful Light
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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Judgment Matter Said
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Angel Condolences Sympathy
Man is emphatically self-made.
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Made Men Self
Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
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Doe Guilt Responsibility
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.
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Guide Judging Men Party

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