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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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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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If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.
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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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The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.
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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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