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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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Lebanon
Kentucky
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As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.
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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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Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.
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As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.
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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 are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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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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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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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.
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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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The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.
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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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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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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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