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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

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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.”

Mind Persons Certain Belief Opinion Mark Justify Dislike Vulgar Transfers Opinions And Beliefs

Author:John Lancaster Spalding

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

Ifs Opinion Angry Ridiculous

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“Faith, like love, unites; opinion, like hate, separates.”

Hate Opinion Like Love

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of the highest and profoundest minds.”

Ifs Mind Turns Opinion Highest

Author:John Lancaster Spalding

“It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly utter what is permanently true and interesting, what shall appeal to the best minds a thousand years hence, as it appeals to them to-day, this is the work of genius.”

Thinking Years Mind Difficult Interesting Opinion Genius Thousand Currents Appeals Streams Thousand Years Floats

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

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

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