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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 secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.”

Men Has Beens Done Lying Virtue Greater Worst Bounds Vices Insight Criminals Secure Mediocrity Approval Conventional

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.”

Virtue Glory Stealing Ease Our Time Our Love Foe

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.”

Heart Shows Winning Virtue Faults No Love

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.”

Virtue Ignorance Innocence

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.”

Mean Attention Virtue Spring Roots Instruments Excellence Compelled Manuals

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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