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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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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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Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
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It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.
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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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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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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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We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
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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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Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
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If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.
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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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The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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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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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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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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What we love to do we find time to do.
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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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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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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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