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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.

John Henry Newman

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
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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Bird Instruments Resources
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
All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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Giving Men Perspective
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Art Beauty Nature
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
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Exercise Friends Love Men
The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Mother Religious Today
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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Iron Teacher Winter
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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Break Cost Sacrifice Through
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Angel Condolences Sympathy
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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Dream Ideas Religion
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Men Nature Science
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
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Blessing Dream Sacrifice
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Change Life Spiritual

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