Selections from the Prose Writings of John Henry Cardinal Newman

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works of love

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stlessness and

culties. Gifte

rightful author

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lar poet, an impre

us throwing off

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one object to a

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ry different termin

e some great dif

of encountering

re decay, to al

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mouths of men b

immoral: the o

the Church.

one to the saints

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itself in some

very history of

east, there is no

case of that dre

f singularity, van

, which were to

ics of our o

his early histor

tender feelings

and, above all,

rnal to his own

l his contemplat

sider what his

d imprisoned, sol

hirst; and force

excitements, by

h and violence of

f the Divine Pe

stenance. He ran

it, but from th

what I might l

s, "in love with

way without sna

of that inward f

roughout that

was without

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was sickly and fu

self forth, desir

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at I then was," h

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s distracted; ha

ore about a shat

being borne by me,

ot in calm groves

nt spots, nor in cur

the bed and the cou

nd it repose. All t

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ment. But when my

load of misery w

t ought to have be

w it, but neither

hen I thought of

substantial thing

phantom, and my er

scharge my load th

rough the void, an

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heart flee from my

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this last sentence

death-bed was

familiar name h

mention. "He

he says, "and

d playfellows."

the heresy whi

en he grew to h

tine's pursuits,

n a closer intim

his heart, when

" he says, "out of

ted one whole yea

all sweetness in

sick of a fever, he

being given over,

while little regar

d retain rather wh

as wrought on his

it should be ob

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ar otherwise; fo

hwith, as soon as

soon as he was abl

but too much up

h him, as though he

ism, which he h

ind and feeling, bu

ved. But he shrun

th a wonderful a

continue his frien

. I, all astoni

otions till he shoul

enough for me to

s taken away fro

be preserved for my

absence, he was

so depart