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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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Lebanon
Kentucky
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The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.
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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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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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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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If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
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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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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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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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The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
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To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which is to mould and fashion men who are more than institutions, who create, outgrow, and re-create them.
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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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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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We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.
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It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.
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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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The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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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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Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.
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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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