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John Lancaster Spalding on Love

1840–1916 United States

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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.

Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)

The disinterested love of truth which culture fosters is akin to the unselfishness which is a characteristic of the good.

Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)

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.

Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)

Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.

Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)

As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought.

Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)

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

Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)

Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul—this is the miser’s curse—this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.

Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)

Believe in no triumph which is won by the deadening of human faculty or the dwarfing of human life. Strive for truth and love, not for victory.

Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)

Love finds us young and keeps us so: immortal himself, he permits not age to enter the hearts where he reigns.

Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)

When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.

Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)

As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.

Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Lancaster Spalding (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.