John Henry Newman
English theologian
Lived from: 1801 - 1890
Category: Theologians and clergy Country: 
United Kingdom
Born: 21 february 1801 Died: 11 august 1890
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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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.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not.
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Nothing is so easy as to be religious on paper.
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Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
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The love of Our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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