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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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To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which is to mould and fashion men who are more than institutions, who create, outgrow, and re-create them.
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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.
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As our power over others increases, we become less free for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.
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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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The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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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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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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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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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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If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
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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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