Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANTo discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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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.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
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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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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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.
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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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