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• 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

  Matter, Judgment, Said

  John Henry Newman (1997). “Parochial and Plain Sermons”, p.755, Ignatius Press

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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.

  John Henry Newman

  Religious, Selfish, Rewards

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• The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

  John Henry Newman

  World, Surface, Miscellaneous

  John Henry Newman (1859). “The Scope and Nature of University Education ... Second Edition”, p.296

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• And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.

  John Henry Newman

  Sympathy, Condolences, Angel

  John Henry Newman (1837). “Lyra apostolica”, p.29

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• A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

  John Henry Newman

  Wisdom, Memories, Would Be

  Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press (1844). “Sermons: Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief”, p.182, Aeterna Press

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• Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.

  John Henry Newman

  Christ, Vicars, Aboriginal

  John Henry Newman (1875). “A Letter Addressed to His Grace the Duke of Norfolk: On Occasion of Mr. Gladstone's Recent Expostulation”, p.73

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• Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.

  John Henry Newman

  Religious, Enquiry, Modesty

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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

  Love, Strong, Powerful

  John Henry Newman, Mary Katherine Tillman (2001). “Rise and Progress of Universities And, Benedictine Essays”, p.85, Gracewing Publishing

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• It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

  John Henry Newman

  Resentment, Get Up, Difficult

  'Apologia pro Vita Sua' (1864) 'Mr Kingsley's Method of Disputation'

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• O loving wisdom of our God
  when all was sin and shame,
  a second Adam to the fight
  and to the rescue came.

  John Henry Newman

  Fighting, Sin, Shame

  John Henry Newman (1868). “Verses on Various Occasions”, p.354

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• Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.

  John Henry Newman

  Artist, Lions

  John Henry Newman (1857). “Lectures on the present position of Catholics in England: adressed to the brothers of the Oratory”, p.4

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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.

  John Henry Newman

  Thinking, Expression, Style

  Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press (2009). “The Idea of a University”, p.218, Aeterna Press

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• We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

  John Henry Newman

  Ignorant, Mind, Knows

  John Henry Newman (1873). “Discussions and Arguments on Various Subjects”, p.280

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• I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

  John Henry Newman

  Firsts, Drink, Pope

  Letter to the Duke of Norfolk

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• Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

  John Henry Newman

  Bird, Resources, Instruments

  John Henry Newman (2010). “Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education: Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin”, p.231, Cambridge University Press

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• Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this first, that they have done no harm; next, that they have no power whatever of resistance; it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which makes their sufferings so especially touching.

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  Moving, Heart, Animal

  "Parochial and Plain Sermons".

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• Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

  John Henry Newman

  Fall, Men, Dogma

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• Go down again - I dwell among the people.

  John Henry Newman

  People

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• Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.

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  Faith, Sacrifice, Hazards

  John Henry Newman (1844). “Sermons, Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief: Preached Before the University of Oxford”, p.233, Aeterna Press

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• There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.

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  Struggle, Passion, Sky

  John Henry Newman, Albert Redcliffe (2002). “Selected Writings to 1845”, p.87, Taylor & Francis

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• Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

  John Henry Newman

  Nature, Science, Men

  Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press (2009). “The Idea of a University”, p.183, Aeterna Press

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• The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.

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  Heart, People, Ears

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• Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

  John Henry Newman

  Self, Two, Creator

  'Apologia pro Vita Sua' (1864) 'History of My Religious Opinions to the Year 1833'

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• Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.

  John Henry Newman

  Giving, Inspire, Religion

  John Henry Newman (1852). “Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education: Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin”, p.296

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• Man is emphatically self-made.

  John Henry Newman

  Men, Self, Self Made

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