Time hath a taming hand.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLife 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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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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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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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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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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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Dear Lord…shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul…Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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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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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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