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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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As our power over others increases, we become less free for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
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The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
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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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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
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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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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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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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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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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.
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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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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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A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.
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