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Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

Horace Mann

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Horace Mann
Age: 63 †
Born: 1796
Born: May 4
Died: 1859
Died: August 2
American Politician
Lawyer
Politician
University Teacher
Franklin
Massachusetts
Greatness
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Truth
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Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.
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Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.
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Benevolence is a world of itself -- a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior.
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The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains.
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Jails and prisons are the complement of schools so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
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Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.
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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
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We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.
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Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders.
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It is well to think well it is divine to act well.
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Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
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He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.
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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
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Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.
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In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.
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Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
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When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.
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They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.
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Of all rights which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.
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The Chinese have an excellent proverb: Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
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