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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.
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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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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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 innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
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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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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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In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
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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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A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.
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It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.
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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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