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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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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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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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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 world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.
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We have no sympathy with those who are controlled by ideas and passions which we neither understand nor feel. Thus they who live to satisfy the appetites do not believe it possible to live in and for the soul.
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It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.
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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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In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
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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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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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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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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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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
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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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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
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