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He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

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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Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
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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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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
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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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To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
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To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.
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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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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
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School is the cheapest police.
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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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He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
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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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Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.
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Love must be the same in all worlds.
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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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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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Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich 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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Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.
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Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
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