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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.

John Henry Newman

Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Arguments People Sympathies
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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Change Inspirational Wish
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Life Pain Success
I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Almighty Evolution Inconsistent Theory
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Catholic Love Soul
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Act Since Wish
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.
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Passion Sky Struggle
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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Anxiety Detail Teacher
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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Decay Fickle Needs
Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Dark Light
Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Enquiry Modesty Religious
Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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Depth Height Way
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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Expression Style Thinking
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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Bird Instruments Resources
Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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Believe Conviction Results
The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Mother Religious Today

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