John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

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• The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Inspirational, Courage, Bravery

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• We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Calamity, Disturbed

  John Lancaster Spalding (1899). “Thoughts and Theories of Life and Education”

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• Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Motivational, Philosophy, Philosophical

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Mind, Belief, Opinion

  "Aphorisms and Reflections". Book by John Lancaster Spalding, p. 180, 1901.

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• What we love to do we find time to do.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Time, Time Management

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Faith, Believe, Knows

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• When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

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  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• We have no sympathy with those who are controlled by ideas and passions which we neither understand nor feel. Thus they who live to satisfy the appetites do not believe it possible to live in and for the soul.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Believe, Passion, Ideas

  "Aphorisms and Reflections" by John Lancaster Spalding, (pp. 239-240), 1901.

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• As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

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  Sad, Memories, Paradise

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Sincerity, Livelihood, Suspicious

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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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Self, Suffering, Overcoming

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be

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  Helping Others, Should, Deals

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.

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  Thinking, And Love, Would Be

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Men, Fire, Brave

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

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  Believe, Atmosphere, Succeed

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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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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  Desire, Able, Ability

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.

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  Flower, Fate, Trouble

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Prejudice, Infirmity

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.

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  Ridiculous, Opinion, Angry

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Family, Mom, Mother

  John Lancaster Spalding (1899). “Things of the Mind”

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• When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness.

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  Bears, Witness, False Witness

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.

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  Remember, Tire, Thee

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.

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  Solitude, Unbearable, Bears

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.

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  Thinking, Imagine

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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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.

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  Wise, Art, Thinking

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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