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

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  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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• States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It is this that makes genuine literature a vital force.

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  Inspiration, Creating, Forever

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

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  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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• 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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• 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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Philosophy, Mind, Literature

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

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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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• The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.

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  Numbers, Influence, Free Will

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

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• It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.

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  Loyalty, Certain, Difficult

  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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• When guests enter the room their entertainers rise to receive them; and in all meetings men should ascend into their higher selves, imparting to one another only the best they know and love.

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  Men, Self, Guests

  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.

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  Sunset, May, Dawn

  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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• There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.

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  Character, Vicious, Difficulty

  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.

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  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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• 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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• Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.

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  Gratitude, Envy, Trying

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

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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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• Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Effort, Stories, Littles

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

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