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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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“To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of many.”

Thinking Self Speak Justice Draws Ill Speak The Truth Ill Will

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

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

Thinking Persons Speak Can Not Hateful Disagreeable

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which is to mould and fashion men who are more than institutions, who create, outgrow, and re-create them.”

Thinking Men Mean Ends Purpose Fashion Institutions Notion Excellent Superficial Mould

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

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

Thinking Imagine

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“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

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“If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.”

Ifs Thinking Art Seems Wise Appreciate Foolish Shallow Thyself

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

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“What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.”

Thinking Form Flow

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Helping Would Be Divine And Love

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

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“Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.”

People Thinking Men Writing Country Age Names Majority Inferiors

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

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“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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