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Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
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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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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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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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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Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.
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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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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.
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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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The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
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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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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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As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.
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