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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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More quotes by John Lancaster Spalding
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
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A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.
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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 study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.
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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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Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
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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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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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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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As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.
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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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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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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
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The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.
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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 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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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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