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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 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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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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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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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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Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
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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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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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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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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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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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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
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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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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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