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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.
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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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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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 we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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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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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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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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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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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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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.
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There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.
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Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
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Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.
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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 noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.
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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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