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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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If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.
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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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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.
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Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
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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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The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
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It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.
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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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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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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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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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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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Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.
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Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.
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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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