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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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If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
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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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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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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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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.
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Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.
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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.
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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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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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It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.
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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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