Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANEgotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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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.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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It is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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’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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