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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.

John Henry Newman

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.
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Beautiful Moral Perfect
Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Angel Purpose
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
We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Attitude Friends Inspirational
When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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Esteem Giving Needs Self
Calculation never made a hero.
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Calculation Hero Made
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
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Arguing Believe Men
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
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
Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Catholic Heaven Part
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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Iron Teacher Winter
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
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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Church Hands Thinking
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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Done Law War
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Angel Condolences Sympathy

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