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The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
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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Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.
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Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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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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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.
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Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.
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Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.
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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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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
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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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He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.
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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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In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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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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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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Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
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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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The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
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