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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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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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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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As our power over others increases, we become less free for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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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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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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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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Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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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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The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
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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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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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The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
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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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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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The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.
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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.
John Lancaster Spalding
