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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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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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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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If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.
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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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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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To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which is to mould and fashion men who are more than institutions, who create, outgrow, and re-create them.
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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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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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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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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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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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