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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.

John Henry Newman

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 NEWMAN

Passion Sky Struggle
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Aboriginal Christ Vicars
All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
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Beautiful Moral Perfect
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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Death might Years
Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Catholic Heaven Part
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Evil Excess Substance
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Men Nature Science
May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Giving Long Support
Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Depth Height Way
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
Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Angel Purpose
By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Garden Peace Spiritual
Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Artist Better Lions
Time hath a taming hand.
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Hands Hath Taming
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Dogma Fall Men
Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Faith Hazards Sacrifice

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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