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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
Kentucky
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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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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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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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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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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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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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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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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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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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