John Lancaster Spalding Quotes - Page 6

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• The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  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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• 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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• To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of many.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Thinking, Ill Will, Self

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

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Vanity, Despair, Doctrine

  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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Lying, Zest, Harvest

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

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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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• The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Important, Neglect, Educate

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

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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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• They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Eye, Controlled, Through The Eyes

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

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