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To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which is to mould and fashion men who are more than institutions, who create, outgrow, and re-create them. (John Lancaster Spalding)
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. View quote
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The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct. View quote
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We have lost the old love of work, of work which kept itself company, which was fair weather and music in the heart, which found its reward in the doing, craving neither the flattery of vulgar eyes nor the gold of vulgar men. View quote
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The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation. View quote
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Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (John Lancaster Spalding)
We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours. View quote
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others. View quote
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Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world. View quote
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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. View quote
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What is greatly desired, but long deferred, gives little pleasure, when at length it is ours, for we have lived with it in imagination until we have grown weary of it, having ourselves, in the meanwhile, become other. View quote
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It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly utter what is permanently true and interesting, what shall appeal to the best minds a thousand years hence, as it appeals to them to-day,-this is the work of genius. View quote
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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed. View quote
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Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things. View quote
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The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls. View quote
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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. (John Lancaster Spalding)
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. View quote
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They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children. View quote
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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. View quote
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If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own? View quote
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