British - Clergyman | February 21, 1801 - August 11, 1890
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
John Henry Newman
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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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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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