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John Lancaster Spalding (1840 – 1916)


First bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria from 1877 to 1908, a notable scholarly writer of the time and, a co-founder of The Catholic University of America.
John Lancaster Spalding
A hobby is the result of a distorted view of things. It is putting a planet in the place of a sun.
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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.
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It is unpleasant to turn back, though it be to take the right way.




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Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.
Spalding John Lancaster
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.
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When pleasure is made a business, it ceases to be pleasure.
John Lancaster Spalding
In the world of thought a man’s rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.
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If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.
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The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one’s self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.
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A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to accomplish this, it is necessary that their minds be held aloof from the babblement and discussions of the hour, that they may accustom themselves to take interest in the words and deeds of the greatest men, and so make themselves able and worthy to shape a larger and nobler future; but if their hours of leisure are spent over journals and reviews, they will, in later years, become the helpless victims of the newspaper habit.
John Lancaster Spalding
The best money can procure for thee is freedom to live in thy true self. It is more apt however to enslave than to liberate. It is good also when thou makest it a means to help thy fellow men; but here too it is easier to harm than to benefit: for the money thou givest another is useful to him only when it stimulates him to self-activity.




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They who no longer believe in principles still proclaim them, to conceal, both from themselves and others, the selfishness of the motives by which they are dominated.
John Lancaster Spalding
The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
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The will—the one thing it is most important to educate—we neglect.
Spalding John Lancaster
No sooner does a divine gift reveal itself in youth or maid than its market value becomes the decisive consideration, and the poor young creatures are offered for sale, as we might sell angels who had strayed among us.
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Perfection is beyond our reach, but they who earnestly strive to become perfect, acquire excellences and virtues of which the multitude have no conception.
John Lancaster Spalding
Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.
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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.
John Lancaster Spalding
Make thyself perfect; others, happy.
Spalding John Lancaster
When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness.


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