Man is emphatically self-made.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANGood 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Time hath a taming hand.
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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
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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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Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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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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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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O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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