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John Lancaster Spalding

John Lancaster Spalding (June 2, 1840 – August 25, 1916) was an American author, poet, advocate for higher education, the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria from 1877 to 1908 and a co-founder of The Catholic University of America.

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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.

Law, Petty, Pleading, Practice, Tends, Views

The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.

Educate, Important, Neglect, Thing

The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.

Ability, Able, Desire, Part

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.

Body, Dead, Fallen, Hair, Littles, Shrink

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

Become, Hero, Men, Philosophers, Saint, Saints

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

Altruism, Barbarism, Love, Love Is

The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.

Garnered, Harvest, Lies, Lying, Zest

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

Background, Interesting, Personality, Strong, Thou, Wouldst

The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.

Educate, Education, Firsts, Labor, Labors, Lovers

If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.

Angry, Make, Opinion, Opinions, Ridiculous

We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.

Affectation, Defects, Made, Qualities, Quality, Ridiculous

A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit.

Exercise, Eye, Make, Says, Solemn, Wise

If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.

Attempt, Light, Matter, Soul

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

And Love, Approval, Knows, Content, Know

In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

And Love, Compulsion, Education, Employed, Purpose, Religion

The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.

Color, Mind, Receives, Space, World

As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.

Disagreeable, Hateful, Love, Speak, Thinking

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

Doubt, Faith, Laborious, Respect, Thoughtful, Worthy

If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be

Deals, Help, Helping Others, Should, Though, Wouldst

The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.

Imagine, Live, Think, Thinking, Truth

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