A great man, who lives intimately with his admirers, with difficulty escapes being made ridiculous.
John Lancaster Spalding
Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
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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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Each individual bears within himself an ideal man, and to bring him forth in perfect form is his divinely imposed life-work.
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As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.
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A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.
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The strong man is he who knows how and is able to become and be himself; the magnanimous man is he who, being strong, knows how and is able to issue forth from himself, as from a fortress, to guide, protect, encourage, and save others.
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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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God has not made a world which suits all; how shall a sane man expect to please all?
We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.
What a wise man knows seems so plain and simple to himself that he easily makes the mistake of thinking it to be so for others.
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Wouldst thou bestow some precious gift upon thy fellows, make thyself a noble man.
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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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