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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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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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Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.
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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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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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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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If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.
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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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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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If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
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To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which is to mould and fashion men who are more than institutions, who create, outgrow, and re-create them.
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Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.
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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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