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To love the perfection with which we do our work, or the company of those with whom we work, is the secret of learning to love the work itself.

— John Lancaster Spalding Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)

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

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Since the mass of mankind are too ignorant or too indolent to think seriously, if majorities are right it is by accident.

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

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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.

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Perfection is beyond our reach, but they who earnestly strive to become perfect, acquire excellences and virtues of which the multitude have no conception.

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