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

— John Henry Cardinal Newman

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  1. Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
  2. A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar.
  3. There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years o…
  4. To be deep in history is to cease to be protestant.
  5. Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well, that no one could find fault with it.
  6. Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.
  7. After he had gone over the mansion, his entertainer asked him what he thought of the splendours it contained; and he in reply did full just…
  8. There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Divi…

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Topics in this quote

  • change
  • reform
  • reforms
  • society
  • superficiality
  • surface
  • truth

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