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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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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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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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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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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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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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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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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.
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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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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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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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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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The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.
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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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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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