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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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Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.
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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.
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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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The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
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What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.
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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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The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
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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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Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
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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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The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
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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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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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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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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
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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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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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Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
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