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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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As our power over others increases, we become less free for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
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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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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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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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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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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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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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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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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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