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In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.
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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Franklin
Massachusetts
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As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.
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If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
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We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.
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We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end. Hence it is proper to speak of eternity as the attribute of God, but of immortality as the attribute of man.
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The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
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There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.
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It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.
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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
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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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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.
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The Chinese have an excellent proverb: Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
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Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.
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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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To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
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The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.
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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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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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It is well to think well it is divine to act well.
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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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After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.
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