John Henry Newman Quotes
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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 safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last!
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Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman. It is well to be a gentlemen, it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste, a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind, a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life.
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As I have already said, there are but two alternatives, the way to Rome, and the way to Atheism.
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Christian! hence learn to do thy part,And leave the rest to Heaven.
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I do not shrink from uttering my firm conviction that it would be a gain to the country were it vastly more superstitious, more bigoted, more gloomy, more fierce in its religion than at present it shows itself to be.
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Sin can read sin, but dimly scans high grace.
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Where good and ill together blent,Wage an undying strife.
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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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Firmly I believe and truly God is Three, and God is One;And I next acknowledge duly Manhood taken by the Son.
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Moreover, there is this harm too, and one of vast extent, and touching men generally, that by insincerity and lying faith and truth are lost, which are the firmest bonds of human society, and, when they are lost, supreme confusion follows in life, so that men seem in nothing to differ from devils.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
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So living Nature, not dull Art,Shall plan my ways and rule my heart.
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Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom,Lead Thou me on!The night is dark, and I am far from home-Lead Thou me on!Keep Thou my feet: I do not ask to seeThe distant scene,-one step enough for me.
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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
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A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
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Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
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There is in stillness oft a magic powerTo calm the breast, when struggling passions lower;Touch'd by its influence, in the soul ariseDiviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.