John Lancaster Spalding quotes - page 2

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. (John Lancaster Spalding)
Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble. View quote
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Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul. View quote
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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. View quote
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Make thyself perfect; others, happy. View quote
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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much. View quote
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Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom. View quote
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Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets. View quote
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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. View quote
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A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to accomplish this, it is necessary that their minds be held aloof from the babblement and discussions of the hour, that they may accustom themselves to take interest in the words and deeds of the greatest men, and so make themselves able and worthy to shape a larger and nobler future; but if their hours of leisure are spent over journals and reviews, they will, in later years, become the helpless victims of the newspaper habit. View quote
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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting? (John Lancaster Spalding)
There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious. View quote
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Break not the will of the young, but guide it to right ends. View quote
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Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received. View quote
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In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement. View quote
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The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects. View quote
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If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of the highest and profoundest minds. View quote
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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant. View quote
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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. View quote
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He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more. View quote
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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. (John Lancaster Spalding)
The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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A hobby is the result of a distorted view of things. It is putting a planet in the place of a sun. View quote
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