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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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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Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.
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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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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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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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