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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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A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.
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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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You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing it encourages much.
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Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
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There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.
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Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.
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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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It is well to think well it is divine to act well.
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School is the cheapest police.
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The pulpit only teaches to be honest the market-place trains to overreaching and fraud and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.
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The object of punishment is, prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.
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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.
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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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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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The Chinese have an excellent proverb: Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
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Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.
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When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?
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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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Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.
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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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