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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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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
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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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We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
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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 highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
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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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The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
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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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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.
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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 common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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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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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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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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We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.
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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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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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As our power over others increases, we become less free for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
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