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Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
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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Catholic Priest
Lebanon
Kentucky
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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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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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We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
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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 aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.
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What we love to do we find time to do.
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Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.
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