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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

John Henry Newman

And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Angel Condolences Sympathy
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Arguing Believe Men
Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
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Bird Instruments Resources
Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Arguments People Sympathies
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Change Life Spiritual
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Art Beauty Nature
Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Faith Hazards Sacrifice
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
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Decay Fickle Needs
Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Catholic Heaven Part
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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Dominion Love Powerful Strong
I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Almighty Evolution Inconsistent Theory
There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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Passion Sky Struggle
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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Action Done Practice
It is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.
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Blessing Dream Sacrifice
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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Decision Reflection Want
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.
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Church Hands Thinking

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