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The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.

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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University Teacher
Franklin
Massachusetts
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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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We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.
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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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Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.
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To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
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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.
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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
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The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of 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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