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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 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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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
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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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Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.
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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.
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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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