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John Lancaster Spalding was a prominent American author whose works spanned a variety of fields including history, literature, and philosophy, leaving a profound impact on posterity.

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All Ifs Men Mind Knows Littles May Thinking World And Love Highest Should Soul Giving Made Opinion Thyself Virtue Would Be Able Aim

Famous John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

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

Made Quality Ridiculous Defects

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.”

Mind May Made Body Exercise

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought.”

Made Whole Beautiful Fairs Brave Pleasant Beautiful Thoughts

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.”

Ifs Should Made States Would Be Law Political Social Moral Wise Sacrifice Effects Citizens Holy All Time Political Systems Dissipation

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?”

Ifs Thinking Should Made Wish Influence Philosophical Should I

Book:Means and Ends of Education

Source: Means and Ends of Education

About the Author

Born: June 2, 1840
Died: August 25, 1916
Known for: Author
Quotes: 139

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Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and ReligionRelated source material

Means and Ends of EducationRelated source material

Opportunity: And Other Essays and AddressesRelated source material

Things of the MindRelated source material

Thoughts and Theories of Life and EducationRelated source material

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