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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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As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.
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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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Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.
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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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Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.
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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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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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The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.
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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
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Jails and prisons are the complement of schools so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
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Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!
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As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.
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It is well to think well it is divine to act well.
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Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
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NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the error belongs but the error becomes a model or archetype, after whose likeness the active powers of the mind create a thousand other errors.
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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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If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.
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To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
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Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.
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The object of punishment is, prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.
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