All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANMost people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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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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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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Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks.
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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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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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