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

John Henry Newman

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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Dream Ideas Religion
Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Arguments People Sympathies
Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
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Expression Style Thinking
Time hath a taming hand.
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Hands Hath Taming
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Aboriginal Christ Vicars
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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Memories Treatise Wisdom
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Arguing Believe Men
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
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
To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
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Found Function Science
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
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
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Men Nature Science
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
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Iron Teacher Winter

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

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