Slang surely, as it is called, comes of, and breathes of the personal

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

  2. Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

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

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