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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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He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.
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To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
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You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing it encourages much.
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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.
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Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
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But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
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Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.
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The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.
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Keep one thing in view forever- the truth and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.
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Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.
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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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Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
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Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.
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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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Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy laws are manners fully grown,--or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws.
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Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
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There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it.
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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
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Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
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