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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLiterature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Life 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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Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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