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• If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.

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  Strong, Interesting, Personality

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

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• Base thy life on principle, not on rules.

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  Principles

  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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• A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to accomplish this, it is necessary that their minds be held aloof from the babblement and discussions of the hour, that they may accustom themselves to take interest in the words and deeds of the greatest men, and so make themselves able and worthy to shape a larger and nobler future; but if their hours of leisure are spent over journals and reviews, they will, in later years, become the helpless victims of the newspaper habit.

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  Book, Men, Years

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

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• To learn the worth of a man's religion, do business with him.

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  Men, Religion

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

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• A hobby is the result of a distorted view of things. It is putting a planet in the place of a sun.

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  Views, Hobbies, Sun

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

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• Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.

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  Exercise, Mind, Body

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

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• 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.

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  Children, College, Youth

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

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• We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.

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  Hair, Body, Littles

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

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• We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.

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  Quality, Ridiculous, Made

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

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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.

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  Eye, Heart, Men

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

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• To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.

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  Lying, Men, Vices

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

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• In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.

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  Men, Average, World

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

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• Insight makes argument ridiculous.

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  Ridiculous, Argument, Insight

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

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• Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.

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  Men, Littles, Little Things

  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.

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  Children, Trifles

  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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• Make thyself perfect; others, happy.

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  Perfect, Thyself

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

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• The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.

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  Philosophy, Prejudice, Common

  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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• It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.

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  Errors, Causes, Common

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

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• The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.

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  Color, Space, Mind

  "Means and Ends of Education" by John Lancaster Spalding, (Ch. 1), 1895.

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• Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.

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  Prejudice, Accepting, Being True

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

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• The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.

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  Interesting, Accomplish, Subjects

  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.

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  Book, Writing, Needs

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

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