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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANCruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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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 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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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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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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Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
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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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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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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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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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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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