To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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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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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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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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Calculation never made a hero.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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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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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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