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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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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Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
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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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In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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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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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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Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
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The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.
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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 thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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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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