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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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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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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 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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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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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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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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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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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 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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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
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Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.
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In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.
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If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.
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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
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