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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLiterature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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It is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.
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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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Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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