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The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.
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 will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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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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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
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The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
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What we love to do we find time to do.
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A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit.
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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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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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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.
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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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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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Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.
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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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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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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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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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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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