We have no sympathy with those who are controlled by ideas … - John Lancaster Spalding

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We have no sympathy with those who are controlled by ideas and passions which we neither understand nor feel. Thus they who live to satisfy the appetites do not believe it possible to live in and for the soul.

John Lancaster Spalding

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About John Lancaster Spalding

John Lancaster Spalding (June 2, 1840 – August 25, 1916) was the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria from 1877 to 1908, a notable scholarly writer of the time and, a co-founder of The Catholic University of America.

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If thou hast sought happiness and missed it, but hast found wisdom instead, thou art fortunate.

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