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The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
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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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
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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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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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As our power over others increases, we become less free for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
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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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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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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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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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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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In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
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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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It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.
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The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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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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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
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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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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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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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