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Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
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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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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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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We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.
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The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
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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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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
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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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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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