John Lancaster Spalding Short Quotes

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If thou wouldst be implacable, be so with thyself.

John Lancaster Spalding
The smaller the company, the larger the conversation.

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The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.

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Have as little suspicion as possible and conceal that.

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Beauty lies not in the things we see, but in the soul.

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What we acquire with joy, we possess with indifference.

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

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Faith, like love, unites; opinion, like hate, separates.

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Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.

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

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When the crowd acclaims its favorites it applauds itself.

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The happiness of the ignorant is but an animal's paradise.

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

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When pleasure is made a business, it ceases to be pleasure.

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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.

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Break not the will of the young, but guide it to right ends.

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To learn the worth of a man's religion, do business with him.

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If truth make us not truthful, what service can it render us?

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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.

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The seeking for truth is better than its loveless possession.

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The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.

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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.

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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.

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They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.

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

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

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It is unpleasant to turn back, though it be to take the right way.

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They who admire and reverence noble and heroic men are akin to them.

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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

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When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness.

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