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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 giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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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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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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The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
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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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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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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 a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.
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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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As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.
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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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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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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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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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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
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Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
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Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.
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Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.
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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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