A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLet us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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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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Dear Lord…shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul…Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.
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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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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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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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