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If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.
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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Politician
University Teacher
Franklin
Massachusetts
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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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Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring.
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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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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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Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.
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Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
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There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it.
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Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.
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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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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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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
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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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You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it but let all you tell be truth.
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The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.
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Love must be the same in all worlds.
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To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
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It is well to think well it is divine to act well.
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Benevolence is a world of itself -- a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior.
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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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If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.
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