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If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.

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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
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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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The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
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We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.
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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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When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.
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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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Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
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Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
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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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To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
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When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.
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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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I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.
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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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