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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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In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
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The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.
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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.
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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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Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
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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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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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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.
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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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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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We have no sympathy with those who are controlled by ideas and passions which we neither understand nor feel. Thus they who live to satisfy the appetites do not believe it possible to live in and for the soul.
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