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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
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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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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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