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To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.
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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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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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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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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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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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.
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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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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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Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.
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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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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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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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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
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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 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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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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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
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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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