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John Lancaster Spalding Inspirational Quotes (83)

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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
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As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.
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If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.
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Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.
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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
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The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
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There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.
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The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.
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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.
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Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.
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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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What we love to do we find time to do.
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He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.
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The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.
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The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.
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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
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Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
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