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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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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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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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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Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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As our power over others increases, we become less free for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
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Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.
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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
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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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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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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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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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Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
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The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
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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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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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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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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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