Time hath a taming hand.
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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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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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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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
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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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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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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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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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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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