John Lancaster Spalding Quotes About Giving

• 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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Libro, Hombres, Años

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

• 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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Beautiful, Stars, Flower

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

• What is greatly desired, but long deferred, gives little pleasure, when at length it is ours, for we have lived with it in imagination until we have grown weary of it, having ourselves, in the meanwhile, become other.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Long, Giving, Imagination

  "Aphorisms and Reflections" by John Lancaster Spalding, (pp. 180-181), 1901.

• If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Hombres, Dar, Pequeños

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

• Al darnos el dominio sobre el reino animal, Dios ha manifestado su voluntad de que sometamos a la bestia que llevamos dentro.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Animal, Giving, Dominion

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

• 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

  Light, Views, Civilization

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

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