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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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Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.
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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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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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In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
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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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The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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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 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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He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.
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