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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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Lebanon
Kentucky
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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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There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.
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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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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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Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.
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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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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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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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The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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