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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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Catholic Priest
Lebanon
Kentucky
Noble
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Language
Body
Soul
Graceful

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A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit.
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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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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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The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.
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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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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.
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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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We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.
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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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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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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 important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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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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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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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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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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