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.
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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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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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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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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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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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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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Man is emphatically self-made.
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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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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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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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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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