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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
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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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Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.
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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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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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As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.
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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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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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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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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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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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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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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 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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