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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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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.
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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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We have no sympathy with those who are controlled by ideas and passions which we neither understand nor feel. Thus they who live to satisfy the appetites do not believe it possible to live in and for the soul.
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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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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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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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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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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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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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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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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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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.
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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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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
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