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Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.

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
Poor
Men
Capital
Education
Rich
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There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper.
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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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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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Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.
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Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.
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Bodies are cleansed by water the mind is purified by truth.
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To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.
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They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.
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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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When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.
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He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
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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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As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.
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In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.
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Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.
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Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
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But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
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Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.
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In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.
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NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the error belongs but the error becomes a model or archetype, after whose likeness the active powers of the mind create a thousand other errors.
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