John Henry Cardinal Newman Famous Quotes



"A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise."

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.

"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning."


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