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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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There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.
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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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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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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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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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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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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.
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The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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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 lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
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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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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.
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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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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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The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
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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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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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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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