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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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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Lebanon
Kentucky
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To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which is to mould and fashion men who are more than institutions, who create, outgrow, and re-create 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 exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
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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 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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We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
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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 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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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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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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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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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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The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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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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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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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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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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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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