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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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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.
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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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If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.
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The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
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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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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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There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.
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Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
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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 world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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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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