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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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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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The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
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The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
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The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.
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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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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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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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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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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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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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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
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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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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
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The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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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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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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