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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
Lawyer
Politician
University Teacher
Franklin
Massachusetts
Humans
Philanthropy
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Forgiveness
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Relieve
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The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.
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In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance.
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Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
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Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.
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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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Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.
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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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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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A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.
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The object of punishment is, prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.
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Jails and prisons are the complement of schools so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
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If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
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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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Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.
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He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
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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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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
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