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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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
Kentucky
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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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As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.
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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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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
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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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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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The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.
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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.
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