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

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Strong, Interesting, Personality

  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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Approval, And Love, Knows

  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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• Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Reform, World, Thyself

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

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• The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.

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  Ignorance, Innocence, Virtue

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

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Littles, Given, Chiefs

  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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• 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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• As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.

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  Increase, Servant, Power Over Others

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

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• If thou wouldst be implacable, be so with thyself.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Ifs, Thyself

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

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• The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Sunset, May, Dawn

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

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• Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Country, Writing, Men

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

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• One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Latin, Mind, May

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

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• The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow the noblest ideals: for the truths which science ignores and must ignore are precisely those which have the deepest bearing on life and conduct.

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  Philosophy, Mind, Literature

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

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• It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Teacher, Sovereign, Reason

  "Aphorisms and Reflections" by John Lancaster Spalding, (p. 242), 1901.

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• Agitators and declaimers may heat the blood, but they do not illumine the mind.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Blood, Mind, May

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

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• Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Might, Helping, Burden

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• If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.

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  Sheep, Would Be, Gentle

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

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• Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Firsts, Persons, Definite

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• A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Mean, Men, Views

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

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• Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.

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  Worry, Source

  John Lancaster Spalding (1900). “Opportunity: And Other Essays and Addresses”

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