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Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
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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Catholic Priest
Lebanon
Kentucky
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We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.
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To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.
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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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The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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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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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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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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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 exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
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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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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.
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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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