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When pleasure is made a business, it ceases to be pleasure (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
They who admire and reverence noble and heroic men are akin to them (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
Beauty lies not in the things we see, but in the soul (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
If truth make us not truthful, what service can it render us? (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
The seeking for truth is better than its loveless possession (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
The smaller the company, the larger the conversation (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
The happiness of the ignorant is but an animal’s paradise (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
We truly know only what we have taught ourselves (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
What we acquire with joy, we possess with indifference (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
When the crowd acclaims its favorites it applauds itself (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
They who think they know all, learn nothing (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one’s self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
We have no sympathy with those who are controlled by ideas and passions which we neither understand nor feel. Thus they who live to satisfy the appetites do not believe it possible to live in and for the soul (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
In the world of thought a man’s rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement. (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
The fields and the flowers and the beautiful faces are not ours, as the stars and the hills and the sunlight are not ours, but they give us fresh and happy thoughts. (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
It is the business of the teacher... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
Agitators and declaimers may heat the blood, but they do not illumine the mind (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)
Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life (John Lancaster Spalding Quotes)