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Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.
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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University Teacher
Franklin
Massachusetts
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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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Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.
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A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.
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To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
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We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.
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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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Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.
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To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.
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But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
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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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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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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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Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
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Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.
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