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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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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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There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.
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The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.
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If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.
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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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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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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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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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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 able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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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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Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.
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The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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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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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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It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.
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It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.
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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
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