Common Quote by John Lancaster Spalding

“Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.”

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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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…

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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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There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we…

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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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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…

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