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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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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Lebanon
Kentucky
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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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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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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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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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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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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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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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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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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 world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.
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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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In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.
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Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
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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 common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.
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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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Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.
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