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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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The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
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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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Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.
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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 will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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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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Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
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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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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.
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The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.
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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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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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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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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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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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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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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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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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