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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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We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
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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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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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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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What we love to do we find time to do.
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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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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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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.
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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 there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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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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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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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 common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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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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There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.
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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 innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
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