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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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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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Truth
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Right
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In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.
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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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When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.
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The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains.
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The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
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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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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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He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.
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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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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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