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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.

John Henry Newman

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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Beautiful Moral Perfect
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Dogma Fall Men
When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Esteem Giving Needs Self
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
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Passion Sky Struggle
All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Giving Men Perspective
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Life Pain Success
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Memories Treatise Wisdom
Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Enquiry Modesty Religious
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Change Life Spiritual
Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Church Hands Thinking
This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Guide Judging Men Party
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Evil Excess Substance
Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Expression Style Thinking
The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Comprehensive Infinite Reason Spiritual
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Act Since Wish

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