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

John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal

The Pillar of the Cloud http://www.bartleby.com/236/75.html, st. 3 (1833).

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“Sin can read sin, but dimly scans high grace.”

John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal

Isaac http://www.newmanreader.org/works/verses/verse67.html (1833).

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“The Catholic Church claims, not only to judge infallibly on religious questions, but to animadvert on opinions in secular matters which bear upon religion, on matters of philosophy, of science, of literature, of history, and it demands our submission to her claim. It claims to censure books, to silence authors, and to forbid discussions. In all this it does not so much speak doctrinally, as enforce measures of discipline. It must of course be obeyed without a word, and perhaps in process of time it will tacitly recede from its own injunctions. In such cases the question of faith does not come in; for what is matter of faith is true for all times, and never can be unsaid.”

John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal

Apologia Pro Vita Sua [A defense of one's own life] (1864)

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“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 (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal

Discourse V, pt. 6.
The Idea of a University (1873)

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“O my brethren, O kind and affectionate hearts, O loving friends, should you know any one whose lot it has been, by writing or by word of mouth, in some degree to help you thus to act; if he has ever told you what you knew about yourselves, or what you did not know; has read to you your wants or feelings, and comforted you by the very reading; has made you feel that there was a higher life than this daily one, and a brighter world than that you see; or encouraged you, or sobered you, or opened a way to the inquiring, or soothed the perplexed; if what he has said or done has ever made you take interest in him, and feel well inclined towards him; remember such a one in time to come, though you hear him not, and pray for him, that in all things he may know God's will, and at all times he may be ready to fulfil it.”

John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal

Sermon 26: 'The Parting of Friends' http://www.newmanreader.org/works/subjects/sermon26.html (sermon preached on Monday, 25 September, 1843.).

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“Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? … They have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance; it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which make their sufferings so especially touching. Cruelty to animals is as if man did not love God. … There is something so very dreadful, so Satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.”

John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal

Parochial and Plain Sermons, London, 1868; quoted in Matthew Scully, [//books.google.it/books?id=SYY7AAAAQBAJ&pg=PT30 Dominion] (2002).

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“It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain.”

John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal

Discourse VIII, pt. 10. http://books.google.com/books?id=YdrJkVPhptwC&amp;q=%22it+is+Almost+a%22+%22a+gentle+man+to+say+he+is+one+who+never+inflicts+pain%22&amp;pg=PA208#v=onepage <br class="br">The Idea of a University (1873)

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“Moreover, there is this harm too, and one of vast extent, and touching men generally, that by insincerity and lying faith and truth are lost, which are the firmest bonds of human society, and, when they are lost, supreme confusion follows in life, so that men seem in nothing to differ from devils.”

John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal

Apologia Pro Vita Sua [A defense of one's own life] (1864)

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“May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last!”

John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal

Sermon 20 http://www.newmanreader.org/works/subjects/sermon20.html (1834).

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“Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman. It is well to be a gentlemen, it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste, a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind, a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life.”

John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal

Discourse V, pt. 9.
The Idea of a University (1873)

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“Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom,
Lead Thou me on!
The night is dark, and I am far from home—
Lead Thou me on!
Keep Thou my feet: I do not ask to see
The distant scene,—one step enough for me.”

John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal

The Pillar of the Cloud http://www.bartleby.com/236/75.html, st. 1 (1833).

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“There is in stillness oft a magic power
To calm the breast, when struggling passions lower;
Touch'd by its influence, in the soul arise
Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.”

John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal

Solitude http://www.newmanreader.org/works/verses/verse1.html (1818).

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“Firmly I believe and truly God is Three, and God is One;
And I next acknowledge duly Manhood taken by the Son.”

John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal

The Dream of Gerontius http://www.ccel.org/n/newman/gerontius/gerontius.htm, Pt. I (1866).

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“From shadows and symbols into the truth!”
Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem!

John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal

His own epitaph at Edgbaston

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“So living Nature, not dull Art,
Shall plan my ways and rule my heart.”

John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal

Nature and Art http://www.newmanreader.org/works/verses/verse5.html, st. 12 (1868).

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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 (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal

Apologia Pro Vita Sua [A defense of one's own life] (1864)

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“Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.”

John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal

Discourse V, pt. 9.
The Idea of a University (1873)

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“Christian! hence learn to do thy part,
And leave the rest to Heaven.”

John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal

St. Paul at Melita http://www.newmanreader.org/works/verses/verse70.html, st. 3 (1833).

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“As I have already said, there are but two alternatives, the way to Rome, and the way to Atheism.”

John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal

Apologia Pro Vita Sua [A defense of one's own life] (1864)

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

John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal

Discourse VIII, pt. 8.
The Idea of a University (1873)