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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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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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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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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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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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The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
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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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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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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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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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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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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 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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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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