Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks.
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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.
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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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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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