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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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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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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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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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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
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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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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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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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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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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
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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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Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
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