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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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In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
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The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.
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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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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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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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As our power over others increases, we become less free for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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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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Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
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