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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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The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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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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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.
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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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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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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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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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To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which is to mould and fashion men who are more than institutions, who create, outgrow, and re-create them.
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What we love to do we find time to do.
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It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.
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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.
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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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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
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As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.
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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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