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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
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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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.
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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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Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
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There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.
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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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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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The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.
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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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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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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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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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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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There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.
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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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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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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 teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
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