More from John Henry Cardinal Newman

  1. Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
  2. 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…
  3. Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.
  4. To be deep in history is to cease to be protestant.
  5. A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar.
  6. The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
  7. Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
  8. 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…

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