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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 our power over others increases, we become less free for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
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We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.
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It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.
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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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We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
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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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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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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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Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.
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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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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.
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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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As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.
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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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