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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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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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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As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.
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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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As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.
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The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
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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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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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We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.
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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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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 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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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 teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
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Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
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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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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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