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We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
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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As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.
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A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.
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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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The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.
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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
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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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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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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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