It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLiving Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
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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 man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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Man is emphatically self-made.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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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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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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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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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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