Go down again – I dwell among the people.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANAn 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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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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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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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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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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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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How many writers are there… who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
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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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