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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

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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Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
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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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Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
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Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.
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Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
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You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it but let all you tell be truth.
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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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Bodies are cleansed by water the mind is purified by truth.
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When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.
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The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains.
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Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.
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If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.
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Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.
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He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.
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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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It is well to think well it is divine to act well.
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