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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.
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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If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
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Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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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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We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
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We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.
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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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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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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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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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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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Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
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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.
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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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The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
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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 important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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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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The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
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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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