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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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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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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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Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.
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Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated.
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The object of punishment is, prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.
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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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Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders.
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Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.
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Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
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An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.
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Bodies are cleansed by water the mind is purified by truth.
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If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.
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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 republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.
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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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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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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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The Chinese have an excellent proverb: Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
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Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.
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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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