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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
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 we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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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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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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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
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The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.
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There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.
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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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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.
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A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit.
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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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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.
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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.
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What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.
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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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The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
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