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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
Kentucky
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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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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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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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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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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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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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Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
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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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The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.
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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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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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We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.
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