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To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.
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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.
John Henry Newman
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It is thy very energy of thoughtWhich keeps thee from thy God.
John Henry Newman -
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
John Henry Newman -
There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
John Henry Newman -
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
John Henry Newman -
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
John Henry Newman -
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
John Henry Newman
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Calculation never made a hero.
John Henry Newman -
Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem!
John Henry Newman -
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
John Henry Newman -
Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
John Henry Newman -
Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
John Henry Newman -
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
John Henry Newman
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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
John Henry Newman -
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
John Henry Newman -
And with the morn those angel faces smileWhich I have loved long since and lost awhile.
John Henry Newman -
Time hath a taming hand.
John Henry Newman -
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
John Henry Newman -
It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
John Henry Newman
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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
John Henry Newman -
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
John Henry Newman -
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
John Henry Newman -
After he had gone over the mansion, his entertainer asked him what he thought of the splendours it contained; and he in reply did full justice to the riches of its owner and the skill of its decorators, but he added, 'Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.'
John Henry Newman