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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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Catholic Priest
Lebanon
Kentucky
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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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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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If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.
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Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
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The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.
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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
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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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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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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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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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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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The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.
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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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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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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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Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
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