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Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.
Horace Mann
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Horace Mann
Age: 63 †
Born: 1796
Born: May 4
Died: 1859
Died: August 2
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The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.
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Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.
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Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.
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Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.
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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
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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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We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.
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Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.
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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
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If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.
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Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.
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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
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There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper.
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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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Bodies are cleansed by water the mind is purified by truth.
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No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.
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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 devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.
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