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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 can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.
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The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
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There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.
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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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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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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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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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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
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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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The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.
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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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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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A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.
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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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