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We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

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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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Others
Something
Good

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Education is an organic necessity of a human being.
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New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.
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Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.
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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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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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Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.
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Keep one thing in view forever- the truth and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.
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In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.
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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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We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.
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The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.
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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
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You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing it encourages much.
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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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When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.
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Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.
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After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.
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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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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
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