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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
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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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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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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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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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As our power over others increases, we become less free for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
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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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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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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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To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.
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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.
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Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
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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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He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.
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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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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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