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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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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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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.
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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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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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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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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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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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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 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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If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
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The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
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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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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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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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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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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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