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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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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Catholic Priest
Lebanon
Kentucky
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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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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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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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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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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 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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It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.
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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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Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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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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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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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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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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In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.
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The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
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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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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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