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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.
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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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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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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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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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 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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To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.
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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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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
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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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As our power over others increases, we become less free for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
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He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.
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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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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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We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
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Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
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The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
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