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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
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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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Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
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Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.
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Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
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We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.
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If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
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In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.
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Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.
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Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles on the inside of it are science and no miracles.
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The object of punishment is, prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.
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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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The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.
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In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.
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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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Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.
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We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.
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The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.
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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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Bodies are cleansed by water the mind is purified by truth.
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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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