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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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Lebanon
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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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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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We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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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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Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.
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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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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.
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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.
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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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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
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The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
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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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