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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.

Horace Mann

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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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Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.
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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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Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.
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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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Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.
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When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.
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