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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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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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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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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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In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.
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Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
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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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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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Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
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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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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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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
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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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The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
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We have no sympathy with those who are controlled by ideas and passions which we neither understand nor feel. Thus they who live to satisfy the appetites do not believe it possible to live in and for the soul.
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