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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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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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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.
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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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As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.
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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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He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.
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The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
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The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.
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