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• If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Wise, Art, Thinking

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

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• The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Men, Ideas, Common

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

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• The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Blessed, World, Source

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

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

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Break, Guides, Ends

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

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• If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of the highest and profoundest minds.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Mind, Opinion, Turns

  "Aphorisms and Reflections" by John Lancaster Spalding, (p. 170), 1901.

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• If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Teaching, Mean, Simple

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

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• Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Soul, Noble, Body

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

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• The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Brave, Soul, Gentleman

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

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

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Heart, Winning, Faults

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

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

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Hate, Like Love, Opinion

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

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• Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Love Is, Barbarism, Altruism

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

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

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Firsts, Lovers, Labor

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

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• We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Masters

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

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• If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Men, Giving, Littles

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

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• To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Memories, And Love, Useless

  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 aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Mind, Aim Of Education, Increase

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

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• As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Thinking, Hateful, Speak

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

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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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• There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Mistake, Angel, Devil

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

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• Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Dwelling Place, Culture, Ease

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

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• What is greatly desired, but long deferred, gives little pleasure, when at length it is ours, for we have lived with it in imagination until we have grown weary of it, having ourselves, in the meanwhile, become other.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Long, Giving, Imagination

  "Aphorisms and Reflections" by John Lancaster Spalding, (pp. 180-181), 1901.

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• If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Wise, Sacrifice, Law

  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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Gratitude, Envy, Trying

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

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