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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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Catholic Priest
Lebanon
Kentucky
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Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.
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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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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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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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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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The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.
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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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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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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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As our power over others increases, we become less free for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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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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The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
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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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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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