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Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.
Horace Mann
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Horace Mann
Age: 63 †
Born: 1796
Born: May 4
Died: 1859
Died: August 2
American Politician
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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
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An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.
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When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?
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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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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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Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind.
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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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I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.
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One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.
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When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.
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In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.
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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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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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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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Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.
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Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.
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The object of punishment is, prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.
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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
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Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.
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