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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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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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If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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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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The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.
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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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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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The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.
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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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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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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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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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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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Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.
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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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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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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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The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
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Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.
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There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.
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