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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.
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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Lebanon
Kentucky
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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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Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
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A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.
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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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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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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 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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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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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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The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.
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The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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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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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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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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