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• Agitators and declaimers may heat the blood, but they do not illumine the mind.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Blood, Mind, May

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

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• It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Teacher, Sovereign, Reason

  "Aphorisms and Reflections" by John Lancaster Spalding, (p. 242), 1901.

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• The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow the noblest ideals: for the truths which science ignores and must ignore are precisely those which have the deepest bearing on life and conduct.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Philosophy, Mind, Literature

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

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

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  Latin, Mind, May

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

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• Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Country, Writing, Men

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

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• There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.

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  Character, Vicious, Difficulty

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

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

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  Way, Turns, Right Way

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

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• Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.

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  Ease, Our Love, Stealing

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

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• When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.

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  Approval, And Love, Knows

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

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• Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.

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  Hero, Men, Saint

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

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• If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.

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  Strong, Interesting, Personality

  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.

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  Disappointment, Joy, Soul

  "Aphorisms and Reflections" by John Lancaster Spalding, (pp. 129-130), 1901.

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• If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?

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  Interesting, Thee, Disappointed

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

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  Important, Knows, Important Things

  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.

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  Athlete, Office, Battle

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

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• Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Children, Passion, Men

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

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• To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which is to mould and fashion men who are more than institutions, who create, outgrow, and re-create them.

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  Fashion, Mean, Men

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

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• If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

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  Men, Degrees, Ancient

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

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• Base thy life on principle, not on rules.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Principles

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

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• They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Children, Trifles

  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.

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  Important, Neglect, Educate

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

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