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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
Knowledge
Constellation
Truth
Constellations
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Discovered
Forth
Shining
Daily
Stars

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He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
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Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders.
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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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As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.
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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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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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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
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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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The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.
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You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing it encourages much.
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Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
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Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
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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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Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.
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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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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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