Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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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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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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.
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