41 ordspråk av John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman föddes den February 21st 1801 och dog den 11 August 1890
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 If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards. |
| If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar. |
| If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar. |
| In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing. |
| It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain |
| It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing. |
| It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience. |
| It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen. |
| 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. |
| Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. |
| Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion. |
| Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for. |
| Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do something so well that no one could find fault with it |
| Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do something so well that no one could find fault with it |
| Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it. |
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