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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.

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Horace Mann
Age: 63 †
Born: 1796
Born: May 4
Died: 1859
Died: August 2
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But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
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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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If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.
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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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Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.
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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.
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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
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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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