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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.

John Henry Newman

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
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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Judgment Matter Said
Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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Break Cost Sacrifice Through
Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Artist Better Lions
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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Passion Sky Struggle
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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Dear Lord Love Shining
Man is emphatically self-made.
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Made Men Self
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
Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Down Dwell People
All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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Giving Men Perspective
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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Action Done Practice
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
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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Fighting Shame Sin
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Aboriginal Christ Vicars
Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Dark Light
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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Memories Treatise Wisdom

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