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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANWe should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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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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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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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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To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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It is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.
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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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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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