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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

John Henry Newman

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Bird Instruments Resources
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Certainty Creeps Soar
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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Evil Excess Substance
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 NEWMAN

Giving Long Support
This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.
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Guide Judging Men Party
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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Inspirational Inspiring Motivational Sports
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Anxiety Detail Teacher
Calculation never made a hero.
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Calculation Hero Made
I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Almighty Evolution Inconsistent Theory
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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Change Inspirational Wish
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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Given Missions Priceless
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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Passion Sky Struggle
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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Death might Years
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Cures Evil Flagrant
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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Found Function Science
To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
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Action Done Practice

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