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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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Lebanon
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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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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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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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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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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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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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What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.
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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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The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.
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To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.
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Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
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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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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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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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Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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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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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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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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