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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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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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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 thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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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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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.
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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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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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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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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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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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