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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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In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.
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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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We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
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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 lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
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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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The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
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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 world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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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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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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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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The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
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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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As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.
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The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.
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