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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.

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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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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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
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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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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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Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.
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Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
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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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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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The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
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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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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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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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We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
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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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There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.
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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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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.
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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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