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To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
Horace Mann
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Horace Mann
Age: 63 †
Born: 1796
Born: May 4
Died: 1859
Died: August 2
American Politician
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Franklin
Massachusetts
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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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You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing it encourages much.
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Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
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There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.
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It is well to think well it is divine to act well.
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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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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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