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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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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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Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.
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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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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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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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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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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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The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
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Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.
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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 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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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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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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To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.
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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
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The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
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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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A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.
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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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