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The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.
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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As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.
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Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.
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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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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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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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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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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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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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Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.
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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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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
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Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.
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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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