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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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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 are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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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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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
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We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.
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The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
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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 thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.
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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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To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.
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Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.
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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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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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