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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.
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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In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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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 exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
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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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Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.
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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 love to do we find time to do.
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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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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To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.
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The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
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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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We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
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A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.
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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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