The Life of John Henry, Cardinal Newman: Based on His Private Journals and Correspondence, Volume 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1912 - 654 pages |
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Page 88 - In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
Page 273 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Page 15 - O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, till The night is gone, And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile!
Page 95 - ... for the best way of doing so ; seduce not yourself with the imagination that it comes of disappointment, or disgust, or restlessness, or wounded feeling, or undue sensibility, or other weakness. Wrap not yourself round in the associations of years past, nor determine that to be truth which you wish to be so, nor make an idol of cherished anticipations. Time is short, eternity is long. Nunc dimittis servum tuum Domine, Secundum verbum tuum in pace, Quia viderunt oculi mei salutare TUUM.
Page 65 - As he spoke, how the old truth became new ! how it came home with a meaning never felt before! He laid his finger—how gently, yet how powerfully,—on some inner place in the hearer's heart, and told him things about himself he had never known till then.
Page 574 - Luc. 9, 62: nemo mittens manum suam ad aratrum et respiciens retro aptus est regno dei...
Page 55 - 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!
Page 368 - If then a University is a direct preparation for this world, let it be what it professes. It is not a Convent, it is not a Seminary; it is a place to fit men of the world for the world. We cannot possibly keep them from plunging into the world, with all its ways and principles and maxims, when their time comes; but we can prepare them against what is inevitable; and it is not the way to Icam to swim in troubled waters, never to have gone into them.
Page 77 - On these things, looking over an interval of five and twenty years, how vividly comes back the remembrance of the aching blank, the awful pause, which fell on Oxford when that voice had ceased, and we knew that we should hear it no more. It was as when, to one kneeling by night, in the silence of some vast cathedral, the great bell tolling solemnly overhead has suddenly gone still.
Page 55 - I was not ever thus, nor prayed that Thou Shouldst lead me on. I loved to choose and see my path; but now Lead Thou me on! I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.