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The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
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
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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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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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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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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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A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.
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To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.
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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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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 the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.
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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
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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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Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.
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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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