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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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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 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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We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
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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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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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The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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What we love to do we find time to do.
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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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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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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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The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.
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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
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Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
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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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The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
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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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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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