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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
Kentucky
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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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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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Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
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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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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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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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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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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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As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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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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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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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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