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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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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
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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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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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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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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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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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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
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The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.
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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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The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.
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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
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