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• Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Educational, Self, Incentives

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

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• There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.

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  Heart, Winning, Faults

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

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• Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Athlete, Office, Battle

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

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• If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?

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  Philosophical, Thinking, Wish

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

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• The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Important, Knows, Important Things

  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.

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  Color, Space, Mind

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

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• The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.

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  Vanity, Despair, Doctrine

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

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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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• It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly utter what is permanently true and interesting, what shall appeal to the best minds a thousand years hence, as it appeals to them to-day, this is the work of genius.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Thinking, Years, Interesting

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

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• The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.

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  Lying, Zest, Harvest

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

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• The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Exercise, Authority, Know How

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

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• In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.

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  Animal, Giving, Dominion

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

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