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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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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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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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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
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Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.
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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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The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.
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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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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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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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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
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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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The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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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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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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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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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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