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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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
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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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The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
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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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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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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 thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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