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"If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order."
John Lancaster Spalding
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John Lancaster Spalding
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They who think they know all, learn nothing.
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They who admire and reverence noble and heroic men are akin to them.
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As display is vulgar, so fondness for jewelry is evidence of an uncultivated mind.
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If truth make us not truthful, what service can it render us?
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The seeking for truth is better than its loveless possession.
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When the crowd acclaims its favorites it applauds itself.
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Faith, like love, unites; opinion, like hate, separates.
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What purifies the heart refines language.
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Break not the will of the young, but guide it to right ends.
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The happiness of the ignorant is but an animals paradise.
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