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Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.
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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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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The pulpit only teaches to be honest the market-place trains to overreaching and fraud and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.
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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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If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.
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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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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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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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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
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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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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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Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.
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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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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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I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.
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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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We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.
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Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
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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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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.
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