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Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

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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Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Of all rights which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.
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The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.
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Jails and prisons are the complement of schools so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
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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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Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
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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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New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.
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The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.
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It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.
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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
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