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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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Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.
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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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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.
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Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.
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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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Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
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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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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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Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind.
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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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Bodies are cleansed by water the mind is purified by truth.
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As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.
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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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We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.
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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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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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They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.
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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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When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.
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