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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.
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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Catholic Priest
Lebanon
Kentucky
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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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In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
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The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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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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