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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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Politician
University Teacher
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Massachusetts
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Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
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Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
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The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.
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Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.
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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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The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
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He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
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