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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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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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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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We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.
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There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.
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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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Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.
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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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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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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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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.
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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
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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 aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.
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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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Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.
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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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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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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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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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