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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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 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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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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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 innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
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A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit.
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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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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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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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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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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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As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.
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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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The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
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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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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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