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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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Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
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Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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We have no sympathy with those who are controlled by ideas and passions which we neither understand nor feel. Thus they who live to satisfy the appetites do not believe it possible to live in and for the soul.
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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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It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.
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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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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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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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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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Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.
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Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.
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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
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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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Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
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