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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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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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A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.
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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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What we love to do we find time to do.
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It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.
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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 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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Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
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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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A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.
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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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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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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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As our power over others increases, we become less free for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
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The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.
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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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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 writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.
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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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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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