We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANMen will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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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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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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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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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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Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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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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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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I wonder what day I shall die on – one passes year by year over one’s death day, as one might pass over one’s grave.
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