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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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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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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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Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.
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Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.
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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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Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.
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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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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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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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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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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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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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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
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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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To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.
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