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Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.
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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A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit.
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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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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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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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We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
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Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.
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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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