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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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To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.
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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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We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
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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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If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.
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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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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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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
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Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.
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Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.
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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
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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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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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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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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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We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
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We have no sympathy with those who are controlled by ideas and passions which we neither understand nor feel. Thus they who live to satisfy the appetites do not believe it possible to live in and for the soul.
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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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