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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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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Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.
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We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.
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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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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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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 exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
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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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Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.
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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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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.
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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 important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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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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What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.
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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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Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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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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