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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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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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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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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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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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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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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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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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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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We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
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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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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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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.
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Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.
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