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New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.

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
Daily
Stars
Knowledge
Constellation
Truth
Constellations
Firmament
Discovered
Forth
Shining

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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.
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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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Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles on the inside of it are science and no miracles.
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To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
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In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.
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We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.
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Where a love of natural beauty has been cultivated, all nature becomes a stupendous gallery, as much superior in form and in coloring to the choicest collections of human art, as the heavens are broader and loftier than the Louvre or the Vatican.
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Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
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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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If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.
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The pulpit only teaches to be honest the market-place trains to overreaching and fraud and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.
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Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy laws are manners fully grown,--or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws.
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A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.
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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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Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
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Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
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Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.
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It is well to think well it is divine to act well.
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Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.
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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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