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In a higher world it is otherwise; but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

— John Henry Newman An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845)

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Good is never done except at the expense of those who do it: truth is never enforced except at the sacrifice of its propounders.

Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England (1851)

Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well, that no one could find fault with it.

Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England (1851)

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain.

The Idea of a University (1873)

Where good and ill together blent,
Wage an undying strife.

As I have already said, there are but two alternatives, the way to Rome, and the way to Atheism.

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