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If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
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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Catholic Priest
Lebanon
Kentucky
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Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.
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Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.
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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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We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
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It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.
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The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.
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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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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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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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To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.
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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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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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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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We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
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