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Your faith is what you believe not what you know.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

If all were gentle and contented as sheep all would be as feeble and helpless.

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John Lancaster Spalding

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Born: 1840-06-02

Died: 1916-08-25

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.More