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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
Kentucky
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.
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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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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
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The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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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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We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
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Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
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The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.
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We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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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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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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As our power over others increases, we become less free for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
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If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.
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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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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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