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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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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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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
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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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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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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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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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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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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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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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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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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 study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.
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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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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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