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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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As our power over others increases, we become less free for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
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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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There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.
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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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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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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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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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The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.
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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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In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.
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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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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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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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