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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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Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.
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To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.
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We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.
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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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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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A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.
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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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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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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.
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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.
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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 who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.
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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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We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
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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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We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
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