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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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Catholic Priest
Lebanon
Kentucky
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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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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
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If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
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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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We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
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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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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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Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
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A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit.
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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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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.
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A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.
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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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Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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