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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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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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To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which is to mould and fashion men who are more than institutions, who create, outgrow, and re-create them.
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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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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
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It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.
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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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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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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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What we love to do we find time to do.
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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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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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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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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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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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