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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

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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
Life
Somewhere
Diamond
Minutes
Sixty
Forever
Sunset
Gone
Offered
Hours
Reward
Lost
Rewards
Two
Golden
Time
Yesterday
Sunrise

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Bodies are cleansed by water the mind is purified by truth.
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Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.
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Love must be the same in all worlds.
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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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To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
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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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If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.
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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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The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.
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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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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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