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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.

John Henry Newman

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.
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Guide Judging Men Party
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Animal Religious Vegetarian
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Cures Evil Flagrant
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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Knowledge Mind Rewards
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
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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Certainty Creeps Soar
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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Change Inspirational Wish
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Catholic Love Soul
Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Faith Hazards Sacrifice
Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Change Life Positive
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Dogma Fall Men
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
Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Arguments People Sympathies
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
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Life Pain Success
We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Attitude Friends Inspirational

And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.

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