When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThe reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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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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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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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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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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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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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Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel’s) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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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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