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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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If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.
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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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We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.
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If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.
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Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.
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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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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 exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
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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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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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Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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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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What we love to do we find time to do.
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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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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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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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The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.
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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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