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What we love to do we find time to do.
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
Kentucky
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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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 highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.
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The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
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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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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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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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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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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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The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.
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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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Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.
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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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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
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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 will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
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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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