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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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We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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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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To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.
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The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
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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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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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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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Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
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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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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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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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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 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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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
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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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The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
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It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.
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