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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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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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The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
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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 study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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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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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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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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Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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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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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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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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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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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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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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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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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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What we love to do we find time to do.
John Lancaster Spalding
