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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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Lebanon
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The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.
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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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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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We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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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 study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.
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Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
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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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We have no sympathy with those who are controlled by ideas and passions which we neither understand nor feel. Thus they who live to satisfy the appetites do not believe it possible to live in and for the soul.
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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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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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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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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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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit.
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
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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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