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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
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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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You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.
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God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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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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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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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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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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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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