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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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It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.
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If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.
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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.
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If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.
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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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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 highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
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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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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
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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 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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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.
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