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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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Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.
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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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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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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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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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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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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 highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.
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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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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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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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Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.
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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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The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
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