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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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Marvelous
Moral
Whoever
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Paradise
Science
Scientific
Found
Breathe
Light
Air
Truth
Walking
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Breathes

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Where a love of natural beauty has been cultivated, all nature becomes a stupendous gallery, as much superior in form and in coloring to the choicest collections of human art, as the heavens are broader and loftier than the Louvre or the Vatican.
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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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