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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.

Horace Mann

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Horace Mann
Age: 63 †
Born: 1796
Born: May 4
Died: 1859
Died: August 2
American Politician
Lawyer
Politician
University Teacher
Franklin
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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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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If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
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If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.
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Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.
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But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
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We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.
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Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.
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Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.
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As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.
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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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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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Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.
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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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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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Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
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