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Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
— John Lancaster Spalding
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.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.
— Esperanza Spalding
Learn to thrill yourself ... Make everything bright and beautiful about you. Cultivate a spirit of humor. Enjoy the sunshine.
— Baird T. Spalding
When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life's morning.
— John Lancaster Spalding
There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.
— Esperanza Spalding
Faith, like love, unites; opinion, like hate, separates.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter.
— Al Spalding
Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
— John Lancaster Spalding
We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
— John Lancaster Spalding
There's enough time in the day: If you go to bed at 10 and start your day at 6, there's a lot you can do in a day!
— Esperanza Spalding
If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.
— John Lancaster Spalding
I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a big responsibility.
— Esperanza Spalding
I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them.
— Spalding Gray
He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.
— Spalding Gray
I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.
— Spalding Gray
Everything is possible to him that dares.
— Albert Goodwill Spalding
When people used to ask me why I got involved with Hollywood films, I would say jokingly that it was for the health insurance.
— Spalding Gray
I'm basically a fearful person. I'm a phobic person.
— Spalding Gray
What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Care not who is richer or more learned than thou, if none be more generous and loving.
— John Lancaster Spalding
If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?
— John Lancaster Spalding
We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
— John Lancaster Spalding
If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?
— John Lancaster Spalding
Make thyself perfect; others, happy.
— John Lancaster Spalding
I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.
— Spalding Gray
There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
— John Lancaster Spalding
It's not a real relationship if you're not spending at least half of it pretending to get along fine for the benefit of other people.' Adam
— Nick Spalding
Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.
— John Lancaster Spalding
A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.
— John Lancaster Spalding
I am insubordinate by nature. I can't help it.
— Esperanza Spalding
The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
— John Lancaster Spalding
There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
— John Lancaster Spalding
And in this role (the Stage Manager) I could speak from my heart, you know! ... provided I can memorize the lines.
— Spalding Gray
My name means 'hope' in Spanish and it's a name I want to live up to.
— Esperanza Spalding
Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.
— John Lancaster Spalding
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.
— John Lancaster Spalding
If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be
— John Lancaster Spalding
When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there?
— Esperanza Spalding
I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.
— Esperanza Spalding
If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.
— John Lancaster Spalding
I don't watch TV, I don't spend time on the Internet, and I don't party much. I don't text very much, either.
— Esperanza Spalding
If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
— John Lancaster Spalding
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
— John Lancaster Spalding
As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
— John Lancaster Spalding
I like to read, and I like dance. I don't dance, but I like to see other people dance.
— Esperanza Spalding
The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
— John Lancaster Spalding
If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
— John Lancaster Spalding
When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.
— Spalding Gray
Break not the will of the young, but guide it to right ends.
— John Lancaster Spalding
When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Don't ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.
— Lavinia Spalding
Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.
— Esperanza Spalding
Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.
— Esperanza Spalding
Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.
— John Lancaster Spalding
It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.
— John Lancaster Spalding
It's weird sometimes to have people not see me or see what I do.
— Esperanza Spalding
Say not thou lackest talent. What talent had any of the greatest, but passionate faith in the efficacy of work?
— John Lancaster Spalding
Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.
— John Lancaster Spalding
If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.
— John Lancaster Spalding
I grew up with an incredibly loving and supportive family that gave me the impression there were a lot of options for me out there.
— Esperanza Spalding
I'm glad you came over Dev. Things have been pretty shitty lately."
"Not the same as always?"
"Guess I don't even know anymore. — Amy Spalding
"Not the same as always?"
"Guess I don't even know anymore. — Amy Spalding
Base thy life on principle, not on rules.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The highest courage is to appear to be what one is.
— John Lancaster Spalding
My wealth lay in my ability to assist others, so that was my focus.
— Tina Louise Spalding
The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.
— John Lancaster Spalding
I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.
— Esperanza Spalding
Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Healing is awakening to the perfection that already is ours.
— Baird T. Spalding
To learn the worth of a man's religion, do business with him.
— John Lancaster Spalding
A hobby is the result of a distorted view of things. It is putting a planet in the place of a sun.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
— John Lancaster Spalding
If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.
— John Lancaster Spalding
You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.
— Esperanza Spalding
If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
— John Lancaster Spalding