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

John Henry Newman

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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Iron Teacher Winter
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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Dominion Love Powerful Strong
Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Change Life Positive
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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Knowledge Mind Rewards
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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God Love Voice
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Angel Condolences Sympathy
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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Certainty Creeps Soar
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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Guide Judging Men Party
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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Memories Treatise Wisdom
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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Giving Long Support
The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Mother Religious Today
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Men Nature Science
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Animal Religious Vegetarian
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Arguing Believe Men
Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Arguments People Sympathies
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Dogma Fall Men
Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Angel Purpose
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Aboriginal Christ Vicars
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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Death might Years
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Exercise Friends Love Men
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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Decision Reflection Want
Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
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Drawing Prayer Spiritual
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
To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
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Found Function Science
Calculation never made a hero.
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Calculation Hero Made
The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.
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Comprehensive Infinite Reason Spiritual
All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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Giving Men Perspective

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