John Lancaster Spalding on Humor
Browse 7 quotations attributed to John Lancaster Spalding, catalogued under humor, with dates where available.
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Attributed to John Lancaster Spalding, entry #26626: "Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things."
Attributed to John Lancaster Spalding, entry #47756: "Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world."
7 Quotes by John Lancaster Spalding on Humor
"Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things."
"Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world."
"It is the business of culture to make us able to consider with intelligent interest all real opinions, even those we do not and can not accept."
"If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be"
"Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory."
"If thou wouldst be implacable, be so with thyself."
"A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit."