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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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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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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 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 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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Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.
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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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The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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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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Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.
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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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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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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 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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As our power over others increases, we become less free for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
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Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
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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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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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We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
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