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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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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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Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
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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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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
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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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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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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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Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
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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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Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.
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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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