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 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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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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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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The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks.
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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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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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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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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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