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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

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
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Paradise
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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 are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.
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Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.
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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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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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Bodies are cleansed by water the mind is purified by truth.
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The pulpit only teaches to be honest the market-place trains to overreaching and fraud and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.
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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
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As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.
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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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Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!
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Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
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Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.
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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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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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