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Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

John Henry Newman

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
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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Evil Excess Substance
To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
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Action Done Practice
All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Giving Men Perspective
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Men Nature Science
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Art Beauty Nature
Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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Depth Height Way
Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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Break Cost Sacrifice Through
Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
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Giving Inspire Religion
Man is emphatically self-made.
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Made Men Self
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
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Dogma Fall Men
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Change Life Spiritual
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
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Change Inspirational Wish
Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Arguments People Sympathies

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