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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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We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
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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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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
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The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
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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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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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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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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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Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.
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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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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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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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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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The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.
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The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.
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Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
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Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.
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