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

John Henry Newman

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
Time hath a taming hand.
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Hands Hath Taming
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
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
Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Dark Light
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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Judgment Matter Said
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
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
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Decay Fickle Needs
Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Angel Purpose
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
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Aboriginal Christ Vicars
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.
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Blessing Dream Sacrifice
Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel’s) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
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Angel Beautiful Light
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
Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Change Life Positive
Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Down Dwell People

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

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

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