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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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Catholic Priest
Lebanon
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.
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The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.
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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.
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If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.
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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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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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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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In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
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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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We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
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