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The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.
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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He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.
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Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.
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The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains.
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Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
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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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The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
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Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
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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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One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.
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Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
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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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Of all rights which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.
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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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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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Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
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Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
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To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
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Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.
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