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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANIn 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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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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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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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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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To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
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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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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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Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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