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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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As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.
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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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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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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 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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The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.
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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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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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The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
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Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.
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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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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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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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