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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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What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.
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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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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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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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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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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 there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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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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There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.
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Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.
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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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The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
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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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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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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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