Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANTo holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Thought 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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
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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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Calculation never made a hero.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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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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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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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