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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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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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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 doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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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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Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.
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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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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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Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
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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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