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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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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.
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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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As our power over others increases, we become less free for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
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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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If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
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