By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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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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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love 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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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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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