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• If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Remember, Tire, Thee

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Hay pocas cosas que sea más importante aprender que cómo vivir con poco y estar contento con ello: porque cuanto menos necesitemos lo de fuera, más tiempo libre tendremos para vivir dentro.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Importante, Necesidades, Pequeñas

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Nuestros prejuicios son como enfermedades físicas: no podemos hacer lo que nos impiden.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Prejudice, Infirmity

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.

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  Ridiculous, Opinion, Angry

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness.

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  Bears, Witness, False Witness

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.

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  Thinking, Imagine

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• La soledad es insoportable para quien no puede soportarse a sí mismo.

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  Solitude, Unbearable, Bears

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.

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  Enjoy, Possession, Loses

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.

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  Wise, Art, Thinking

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.

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  Men, Ideas, Common

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• No sooner does a divine gift reveal itself in youth or maid than its market value becomes the decisive consideration, and the poor young creatures are offered for sale, as we might sell angels who had strayed among us.

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  Angel, Maids, Might

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.

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  Children, Men, May

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.

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  Mirrors, World, Looks

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• 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.

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  Office, Liberty, Wealth

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Law, Practice, Views

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Para ver un objeto bajo la luz adecuada, debemos alejarnos de él. El estudio de las literaturas clásicas proporciona el distanciamiento que cultiva la perspicacia. Al aprender a convivir con pueblos y civilizaciones que hace tiempo que dejaron de estar vivos, ganamos una posición ventajosa, adquirimos una ampliación y elevación del pensamiento, que nos permiten estudiar con una mente más imparcial y liberal la condición de la sociedad que nos rodea.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Luz, Visión, Civilización

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.

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  Mind, World, Problem

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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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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  Wise, Eye, Exercise

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.

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  Spring, Love Is, Joy

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The fields and the flowers and the beautiful faces are not ours, as the stars and the hills and the sunlight are not ours, but they give us fresh and happy thoughts.

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  Beautiful, Stars, Flower

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Ease, Our Love, Stealing

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Teacher, Doe, Pupils

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Wise, Sacrifice, Law

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Faith, like love, unites; opinion, like hate, separates.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Hate, Like Love, Opinion

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Men, Degrees, Ancient

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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