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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
Kentucky
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We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.
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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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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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Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
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To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.
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The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
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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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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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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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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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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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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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The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
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Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.
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