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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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Catholic Priest
Lebanon
Kentucky
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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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In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
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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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To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.
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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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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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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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