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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8be5d62 | When the mind has grasped the matter, words come like flowers at the call of spring. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 93126fd | It is unpleasant to turn back, though it be to take the right way. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 366dc50 | God has not made a world which suits all; how shall a sane man expect to please all? | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 63a0097 | The important thing is how we know, not what or how much. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| f0238e8 | The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 2371d7e | The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| ca99ff0 | Beauty least adorned is most adorned | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 8fa23dd | They who truly know have had to unlearn hardly less than they have had to learn. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 06f7fe8 | The best book is but the record of the best life. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| a0bf754 | If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| f62934a | Faith, like love, unites; opinion, like hate, separates. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 57e135e | It is more profitable to be mindful of our own faults than of those of our age. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 9654d2d | The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 6a5d6d2 | If thou wouldst be implacable, be so with thyself. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 3d15059 | Make thyself perfect; others, happy. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 9715f31 | Have as little suspicion as possible and conceal that. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 9b21a66 | Obedience is not servility. On the contrary the servile are never rightly obedient. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 6d5d957 | If thou hast sought happiness and missed it, but hast found wisdom instead, thou art fortunate. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 1806d67 | They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 75dc30f | Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| cc056e5 | They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 8265de7 | The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| b2f2969 | The will--the one thing it is most important to educate--we neglect. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 8c5d0ee | When pleasure is made a business, it ceases to be pleasure. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 92a4644 | What purifies the heart refines language. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 7ebae19 | If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| c3e5091 | Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 2740106 | They who admire and reverence noble and heroic men are akin to them. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 0b3fe3c | The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 23aa153 | Break not the will of the young, but guide it to right ends. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 188047f | Beauty lies not in the things we see, but in the soul. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 2bf0a9e | As display is vulgar, so fondness for jewelry is evidence of an uncultivated mind. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| f463ef8 | We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 541af94 | If truth make us not truthful, what service can it render us? | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| ec990de | It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 8706ed4 | It is not worth while to consider whether a truth be useful--it is enough that it is a truth. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| aab97ce | When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 3e2c43c | If thou canst not hold the golden mean, say and do too little rather than too much. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 9bbd5e2 | The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 276d4f2 | The seeking for truth is better than its loveless possession. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 686bd98 | The smaller the company, the larger the conversation. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 7c29fa9 | Not to be able to utter one's thought without giving offence, is to lack culture. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 65be314 | Base thy life on principle, not on rules. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 537611c | Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world. | John Lancaster Spalding |