We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
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| Birth: | 2nd June, 1840 |
| Death: | 25th August, 1916 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Author, Pastor, Poet |
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John Lancaster Spalding was born in Lebanon, Kentucky, USA. He was an American author, poet, the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria, and a co-founder of The Catholic University of America. He wrote poetry under the pseudonym Henry Hamilton. He wrote several books include: Education and the Higher Life, The Poet's Praise (poetry), Aphorisms and Reflections, and Socialism and Labor.
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