Growth is the only evidence of life.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANMay He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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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.
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
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You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.
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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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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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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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Calculation never made a hero.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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