41 ordspråk av John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
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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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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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Ability is sexless.
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And with the morn those angel faces smile/ Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile.
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Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them
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Calculation never made a hero.
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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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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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Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
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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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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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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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I recollect an acquaintance saying to me that 'the Oriel Common Room stank of Logic.'
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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