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Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.

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
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He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
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We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.
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If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
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The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.
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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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An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.
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Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.
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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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Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!
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Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
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Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind.
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Love must be the same in all worlds.
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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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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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To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.
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The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
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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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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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Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.
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