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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

John Henry Newman

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
Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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Believe Conviction Results
By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Garden Peace Spiritual
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Cures Evil Flagrant
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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Anxiety Detail Teacher
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
Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Angel Purpose
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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Drawing Prayer Spiritual
Time hath a taming hand.
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Hands Hath Taming
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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Remuneration Treasure Years
All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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Giving Men Perspective
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Dogma Fall Men
When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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Esteem Giving Needs Self
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Animal Religious Vegetarian
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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Giving Long Support
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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Depth Height Way

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

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