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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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A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit.
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Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.
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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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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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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 highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
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We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
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What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.
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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 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 writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.
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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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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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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
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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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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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