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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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Franklin
Massachusetts
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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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As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.
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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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In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.
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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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A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.
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It is well to think well it is divine to act well.
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Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!
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When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.
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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
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It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.
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Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.
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Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders.
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If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.
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There is nothing so costly as ignorance.
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Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.
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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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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
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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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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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