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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
Kentucky
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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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There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.
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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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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
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The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.
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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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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
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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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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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