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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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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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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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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
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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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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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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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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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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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Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
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Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.
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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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Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.
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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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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
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