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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
Kentucky
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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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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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We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
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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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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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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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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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The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.
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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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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 will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
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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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