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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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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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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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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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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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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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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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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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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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.
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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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