To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what w… - John Lancaster Spalding

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To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.

John Lancaster Spalding

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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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The value of a mind is measured by the nature of the objects it habitually contemplates. They whose thoughts are of trifles are trifling: they who dwell with what is eternally true, good and fair, are like unto God.

Have as little suspicion as possible and conceal that.

If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.

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