Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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It’s really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, … The situation is just so tenuous with where it’s going to hit. You don’t want to take any chances.
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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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.
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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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Calculation never made a hero.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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