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

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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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The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
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An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.
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It is well to think well it is divine to act well.
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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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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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Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.
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Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.
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Education is an organic necessity of a human being.
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The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart.
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We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.
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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 education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.
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If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
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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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In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.
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When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?
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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
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