Time hath a taming hand.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANStuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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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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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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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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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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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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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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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.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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