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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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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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To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.
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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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The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
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Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
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Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
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The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.
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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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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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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 made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
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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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The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.
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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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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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