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

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  Calamity, Disturbed

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

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

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Faith, Believe, Knows

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Men, Fire, Brave

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

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  Family, Mom, Mother

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

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• If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.

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  Light, Soul, Matter

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

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• Say not thou lackest talent. What talent had any of the greatest, but passionate faith in the efficacy of work?

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  Passionate, Talent, Efficacy

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

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• Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

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  Salt, Corruption, Contradiction

  John Lancaster Spalding (1895). “Means and Ends of Education”

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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

  Important, Needs, Littles

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

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• As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought.

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  Beautiful, Brave, Made

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

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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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  Faith, Thoughtful, Doubt

  John Lancaster Spalding (1895). “Means and Ends of Education”

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• Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.

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  Spring, Mean, Roots

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

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