Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANWe should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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How many writers are there… who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
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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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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.
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