It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANMen will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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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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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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Calculation never made a hero.
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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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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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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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Man is emphatically self-made.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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