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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

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Act Since Wish
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
Dear Lord…shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul…Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Dear Lord Love Shining
Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Catholic Heaven Part
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Catholic Love Soul
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Beautiful Moral Perfect
There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Passion Sky Struggle
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Certainty Creeps Soar
There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Done Law War
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Dominion Love Powerful Strong
How many writers are there… who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Anxiety Detail Teacher
Growth is the only evidence of life.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Change Life Positive
Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Expression Style Thinking
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Guide Judging Men Party
Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Faith Hazards Sacrifice
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Life Pain Success

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