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John Henry Newman Quotes: 7

  • To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

  • Growth is the only evidence of life.

  • The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

  • I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

  • A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

  • I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

  • A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society…It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them and a force in urging them.

    The Idea of a University