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As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.

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
Truth
Never
Variance
Follows
Necessarily
Religion
Science
True

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Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
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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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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.
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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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The object of punishment is, prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.
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We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.
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Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.
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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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One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.
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Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.
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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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Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
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