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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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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If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
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The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.
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The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
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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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To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which is to mould and fashion men who are more than institutions, who create, outgrow, and re-create them.
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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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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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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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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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What we love to do we find time to do.
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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.
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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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It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.
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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
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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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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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Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
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