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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 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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We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
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It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.
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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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The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
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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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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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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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Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.
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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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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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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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