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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.

John Henry Newman

Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Angel Purpose
An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
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Iron Teacher Winter
Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Down Dwell People
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
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Decay Fickle Needs
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Art Beauty Nature
Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks.
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Church Hands Thinking
I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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Drink Firsts Pope
God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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Given Missions Priceless
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
Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Dark Light
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Men Nature Science
Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
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Giving Inspire Religion
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Cures Evil Flagrant
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Angel Condolences Sympathy
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Act Since Wish
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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Certainty Creeps Soar

Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.

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