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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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We have no sympathy with those who are controlled by ideas and passions which we neither understand nor feel. Thus they who live to satisfy the appetites do not believe it possible to live in and for the soul.
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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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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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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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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 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 the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.
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Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.
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The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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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 first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.
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