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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.
Horace Mann
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Horace Mann
Age: 63 †
Born: 1796
Born: May 4
Died: 1859
Died: August 2
American Politician
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The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains.
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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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In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance.
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The pulpit only teaches to be honest the market-place trains to overreaching and fraud and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.
Horace Mann
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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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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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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He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
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He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.
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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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The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.
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Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
Horace Mann
If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.
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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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Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.
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The object of punishment is, prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.
Horace Mann
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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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.
Horace Mann
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
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