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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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If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.
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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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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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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
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Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.
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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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Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
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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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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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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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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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There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.
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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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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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