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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 highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.
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Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.
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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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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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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
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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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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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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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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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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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A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.
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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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