Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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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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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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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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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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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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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To 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.
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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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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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Calculation never made a hero.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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How many writers are there… who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
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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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