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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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Horace Mann
Age: 63 †
Born: 1796
Born: May 4
Died: 1859
Died: August 2
American Politician
Lawyer
Politician
University Teacher
Franklin
Massachusetts
Ocean
Roar
Deep
Whispers
Forever
Shell
Taken
Sentiment
Religious
Shells
Soul
Echoes
Men
Sentiments
Inborn
God
Inmost

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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
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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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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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