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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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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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The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart.
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To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.
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In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.
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Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.
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The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.
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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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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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Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy laws are manners fully grown,--or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws.
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Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.
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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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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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They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.
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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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Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
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Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.
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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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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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Benevolence is a world of itself -- a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior.
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Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.
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