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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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The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
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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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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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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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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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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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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
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There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.
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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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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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