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The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
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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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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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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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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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which is to mould and fashion men who are more than institutions, who create, outgrow, and re-create them.
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The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.
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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
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Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
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We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.
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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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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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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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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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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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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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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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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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