John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
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To learn the worth of a man's religion, do business with him.
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Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.
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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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Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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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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Base thy life on principle, not on rules.
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No sooner does a divine gift reveal itself in youth or maid than its market value becomes the decisive consideration, and the poor young creatures are offered for sale, as we might sell angels who had strayed among us.
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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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If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books.
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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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Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
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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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Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.
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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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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.
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There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.
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Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.
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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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It is unpleasant to turn back, though it be to take the right way.
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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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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.
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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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In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
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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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The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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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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