John Henry Newman Quotes
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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John Henry Newman was an English theologian and poet, first an Anglican priest and later a Catholic priest and cardinal, who was an important and controversial figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century. He was known nationally by the mid-1830s, and was canonised as a saint in the Catholic Church in 2019.
