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The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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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A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit.
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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which is to mould and fashion men who are more than institutions, who create, outgrow, and re-create them.
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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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The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.
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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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Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
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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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What we love to do we find time to do.
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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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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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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 able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.
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As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.
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It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.
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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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Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
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We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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