Freedom Quote by John Lancaster Spalding

“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.” quote by John Lancaster Spalding — Download Open image

“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.”

John Lancaster Spalding

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In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.

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There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.

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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.

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The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.

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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.

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

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Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

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Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.

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We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

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