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In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.
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 secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.
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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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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.
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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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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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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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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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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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As our power over others increases, we become less free for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
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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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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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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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We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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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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Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.
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