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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
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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 doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
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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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The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.
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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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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 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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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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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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It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.
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The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.
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If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.
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