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If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.
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
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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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It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.
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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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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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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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It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.
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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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If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
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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 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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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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