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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.
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 our power over others increases, we become less free for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
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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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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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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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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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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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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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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
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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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If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
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Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.
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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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