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If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man. (John Lancaster Spalding)
The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope. View quote
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We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man. View quote
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The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself. View quote
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When guests enter the room their entertainers rise to receive them; and in all meetings men should ascend into their higher selves, imparting to one another only the best they know and love. View quote
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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas. View quote
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Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative. View quote
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If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject. View quote
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It is unpleasant to turn back, though it be to take the right way. View quote
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Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory. View quote
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There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel. (John Lancaster Spalding)
If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched. View quote
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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image. View quote
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If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation. View quote
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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. View quote
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Agitators and declaimers may heat the blood, but they do not illumine the mind. View quote
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Faith, like love, unites; opinion, like hate, separates. View quote
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Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously. View quote
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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow. View quote
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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. View quote
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If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many. (John Lancaster Spalding)
Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true. View quote
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The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow the noblest ideals: for the truths which science ignores and must ignore are precisely those which have the deepest bearing on life and conduct. View quote
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The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue. View quote
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The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth. View quote
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