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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.
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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To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which is to mould and fashion men who are more than institutions, who create, outgrow, and re-create them.
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We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
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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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If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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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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