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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
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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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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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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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What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.
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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.
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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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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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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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The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.
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The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
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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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A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit.
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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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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.
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Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.
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To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.
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The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
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