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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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Lebanon
Kentucky
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The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.
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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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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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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
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Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.
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What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.
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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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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.
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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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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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To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.
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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
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The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.
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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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Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
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As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.
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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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