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

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Remember, Tire, Thee

  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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Faith, Thoughtful, Doubt

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

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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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Ridiculous, Opinion, Angry

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

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

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Bears, Witness, False Witness

  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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Thinking, Imagine

  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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Solitude, Unbearable, Bears

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

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• What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.

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  Enjoy, Possession, Loses

  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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Wise, Art, Thinking

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

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• The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.

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  Men, Ideas, Common

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

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• Faith, like love, unites; opinion, like hate, separates.

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  Hate, Like Love, Opinion

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

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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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Wise, Sacrifice, Law

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

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• The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Teacher, Doe, Pupils

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

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• To view an object in the proper light we must stand away from it. The study of the classical literatures gives the aloofness which cultivates insight. In learning to live with peoples and civilizations that have long ceased to be alive, we gain a vantage point, acquire an enlargement and elevation of thought, which enable us to study with a more impartial and liberal mind the condition of the society around us.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Light, Views, Civilization

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

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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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Ease, Our Love, Stealing

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

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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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Office, Liberty, Wealth

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

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• The fields and the flowers and the beautiful faces are not ours, as the stars and the hills and the sunlight are not ours, but they give us fresh and happy thoughts.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Beautiful, Stars, Flower

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

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• 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

  Spring, Love Is, Joy

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

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• A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit.

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  Wise, Eye, Exercise

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

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• It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.

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  Mind, World, Problem

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

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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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Law, Practice, Views

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

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• The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.

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  Mirrors, World, Looks

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

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• If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

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  Men, Degrees, Ancient

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

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• We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Children, Men, May

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

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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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Angel, Maids, Might

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

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