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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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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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He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.
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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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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 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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Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.
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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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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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If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
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We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.
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It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.
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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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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.
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