It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThis 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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It’s really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, … The situation is just so tenuous with where it’s going to hit. You don’t want to take any chances.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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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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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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