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• A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Gentleman, Doe, Company

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

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• Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Children, Passion, Men

  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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Philosophy, Prejudice, Common

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

  John Lancaster Spalding

  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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Book, Writing, Needs

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

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• Make thyself perfect; others, happy.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Perfect, Thyself

  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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Lost, Unlearn

  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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Men, Littles, Little Things

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

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• Insight makes argument ridiculous.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Ridiculous, Argument, Insight

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

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