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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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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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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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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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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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If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.
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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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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.
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In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
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The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.
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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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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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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.
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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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If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.
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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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