John Henry Newman
Clergyman
1801-02-21
Books by John Henry Newman
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The idea of a university
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Apologia pro vita sua
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An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
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Quotes by John Henry Newman
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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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If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought to detect what is sophistical and to discard what is irrelevant.
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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: Go down again - I dwell among the people.
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If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought to detect what is sophistical and to discard what is irrelevant.
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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: Go down again - I dwell among the people.
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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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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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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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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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Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
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To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
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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 man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
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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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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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