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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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• Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Soul, Noble, Body

  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.

  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.

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  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.

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  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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Men, Ideas, Common

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

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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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Disappointment, Joy, Soul

  "Aphorisms and Reflections" by John Lancaster Spalding, (pp. 129-130), 1901.

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• If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Interesting, Thee, Disappointed

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

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• When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life's morning.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Morning, Enthusiasm, Yearning

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

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• Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.

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  Hero, Men, Saint

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

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• When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.

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  Approval, And Love, Knows

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

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• It is unpleasant to turn back, though it be to take the right way.

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  Way, Turns, Right Way

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

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• If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Book, Writing, Needs

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

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• What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.

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  Thinking, Flow, Form

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

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• They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Children, Trifles

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

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• If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Dull, Failing, Vain

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

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• In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  And Love, Purpose, Compulsion

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

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• Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.

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  Littles, Given, Chiefs

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

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• He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  School, Caring, Knowing

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

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• They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.

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  Lost, Unlearn

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

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• Base thy life on principle, not on rules.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Principles

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

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