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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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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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It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.
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Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.
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Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.
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To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.
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Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
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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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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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There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.
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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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Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
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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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There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.
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The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.
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