Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Agitators and declaimers may heat the blood, but they do not illumine the mind. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color,… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share
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… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share
There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share
Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share
The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share
What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share
Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share
Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share
There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share
Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share
The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share
We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share
They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share
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