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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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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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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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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 there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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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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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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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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What we love to do we find time to do.
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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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It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.
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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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Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.
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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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