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 NEWMANThere 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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I wonder what day I shall die on – one passes year by year over one’s death day, as one might pass over one’s grave.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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.
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God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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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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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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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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An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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May 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.
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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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