"I wonder what day I shall die on……" — John Henry Newman
"I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave."
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John Henry Newman
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96 Quotes by John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman has 96 quotes on this site.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has…
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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its…
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of…
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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the…
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Somehow I am necessary for God's purpose, as necessary in my place as an archangel in his.
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God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has…
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The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite,…
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O most sacred, most loving heart of Jesus, thou art concealed in the Holy Eucharist, and thou beatest for us…
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A cloud of incense was rising on high; the people suddenly all bowed low; what could it mean? The truth…
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going…
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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short…
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to…
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People…
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less…
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
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Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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