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The smaller the company, the larger the conversation.
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Place before thyself the ideal of perfection, not that of happiness, for by doing what makes thee wiser and better, thou shalt find the peace and joy in which happiness consists.
John Lancaster Spalding
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Have as little suspicion as possible and conceal that.
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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 -
Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
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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?
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Dislike of another’s opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.
John Lancaster Spalding -
When pleasure is made a business, it ceases to be pleasure.
John Lancaster Spalding
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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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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.
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In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
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The test of the worth of a school is not the amount of knowledge it imparts, but the self-activity it calls forth.
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They who no longer believe in principles still proclaim them, to conceal, both from themselves and others, the selfishness of the motives by which they are dominated.
John Lancaster Spalding -
The test of the worth of work is its effect on the worker. If it degrade him, it is bad; if it ennoble him, it is good.
John Lancaster Spalding
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We do not find it hard to bear with ourselves, though we are full of faults. Why then may we not learn to be tolerant of others?
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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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No sooner does a divine gift reveal itself in youth or maid than its market value becomes the decisive consideration, and the poor young creatures are offered for sale, as we might sell angels who had strayed among us.
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A hobby is the result of a distorted view of things. It is putting a planet in the place of a sun.
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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 -
The will-the one thing it is most important to educate-we neglect.
John Lancaster Spalding
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Love finds us young and keeps us so: immortal himself, he permits not age to enter the hearts where he reigns.
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What a wise man knows seems so plain and simple to himself that he easily makes the mistake of thinking it to be so for others.
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If thou canst not hold the golden mean, say and do too little rather than too much.
John Lancaster Spalding -
We truly know only what we have taught ourselves.
John Lancaster Spalding