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John Henry Newman
Let us take...
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. True philosophy deals...
Nothing is more...
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they...
A man would...
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find...
To live is...
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
Source: In The...
Ten thousand difficulties...
Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
Source: In The Speaker's...
Ability hits the...
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
Calculation never made...
Calculation never made a hero.
Source: In
From the age...
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot...
Evil has no...
Evil has no substance of its own, but it is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has...
It is as...
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
Source: Sermon,...
And with the...
And with the morn those angel faces smile
Which I have loved long since, and lost...
I loved the...
I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears,
Pride ruled my will: remember not past...
Lead, kindly Light,...
Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom,
Lead thou me on;
The night is dark, and I am far from...
Growth is the...
Growth is the only evidence of life.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....
It is very...
It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
The love of...
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
Virtue is its...
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for...
We can believe...
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
Nothing would be...
Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with...
When men understand...
When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or...
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