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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.

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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
Knowledge
Constellation
Truth
Constellations
Firmament
Discovered
Forth
Shining
Daily
Stars

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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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Jails and prisons are the complement of schools so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
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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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The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains.
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The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
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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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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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Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
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Of all rights which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.
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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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Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.
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If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
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