By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANGo down again – I dwell among the people.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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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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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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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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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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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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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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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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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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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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