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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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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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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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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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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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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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It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.
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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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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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Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.
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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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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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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
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To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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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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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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