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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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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.
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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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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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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
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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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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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Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.
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The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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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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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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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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