John Lancaster Spalding
John Lancaster Spalding
John Lancaster Spaldingwas an American author, poet, advocate for higher education, the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria from 1877 to 1908 and a co-founder of The Catholic University of America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth2 June 1840
CountryUnited States of America
bears witness false-witness
When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness.
thinking flow form
What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
remember tire thee
If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
book men years
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.
self suffering world
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.
passionate talent efficacy
Say not thou lackest talent. What talent had any of the greatest, but passionate faith in the efficacy of work?
philosophy prejudice common
The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.
quality ridiculous made
We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
effort littles stories
Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.
lying men mediocrity
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.
ridiculous opinion angry
If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.
running folly courses
Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.
thinking self ill-will
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 many.
hair body littles
We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.