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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.
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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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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The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.
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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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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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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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We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
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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 doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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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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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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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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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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As our power over others increases, we become less free for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
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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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As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.
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