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To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.

John Lancaster Spalding

Lying, Men, Vices

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

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Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.

John Lancaster Spalding

Soul, Balls, Chains

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

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Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.

John Lancaster Spalding

Running, Folly, Courses

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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We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.

John Lancaster Spalding

Hair, Body, Littles

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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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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The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.

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Numbers, Influence, Free Will

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

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As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.

John Lancaster Spalding

Increase, Servant, Power Over Others

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

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If thou wouldst be implacable, be so with thyself.

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Ifs, Thyself

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

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It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.

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Loyalty, Certain, Difficult

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

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There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.

John Lancaster Spalding

Important, Needs, Littles

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

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When guests enter the room their entertainers rise to receive them; and in all meetings men should ascend into their higher selves, imparting to one another only the best they know and love.

John Lancaster Spalding

Men, Self, Guests

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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Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.

John Lancaster Spalding

Spring, Mean, Roots

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

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The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.

John Lancaster Spalding

Sunset, May, Dawn

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

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States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It is this that makes genuine literature a vital force.

John Lancaster Spalding

Inspiration, Creating, Forever

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

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When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life's morning.

John Lancaster Spalding

Morning, Enthusiasm, Yearning

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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Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

John Lancaster Spalding

Salt, Corruption, Contradiction

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

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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.

John Lancaster Spalding

Worry, Source

John Lancaster Spalding (1900). “Opportunity: And Other Essays and Addresses”

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A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.

John Lancaster Spalding

Mean, Men, Views

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

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Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.

John Lancaster Spalding

Firsts, Persons, Definite

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If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.

John Lancaster Spalding

Sheep, Would Be, Gentle

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

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Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.

John Lancaster Spalding

Might, Helping, Burden

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Born: June 2, 1840
Died: August 25, 1916
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