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It is well to think well it is divine to act well.
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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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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Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.
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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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No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.
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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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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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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.
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Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.
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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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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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Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
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Education is an organic necessity of a human being.
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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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Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.
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When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.
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Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.
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I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.
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The object of punishment is, prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.
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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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In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.
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