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The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
John Lancaster Spalding
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John Lancaster Spalding
Age: 76 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1916
Died: August 25
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As our power over others increases, we become less free for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
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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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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 study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.
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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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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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If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
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What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.
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Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.
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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.
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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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The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
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If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.
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