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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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Lebanon
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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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Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.
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Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
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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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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.
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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
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The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.
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