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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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The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.
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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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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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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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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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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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The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.
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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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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.
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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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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
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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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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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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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The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
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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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If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.
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