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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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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Catholic Priest
Lebanon
Kentucky
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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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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
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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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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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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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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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The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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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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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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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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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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