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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
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Rich
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He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
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We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.
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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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Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.
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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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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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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
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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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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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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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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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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
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Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.
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Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
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Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
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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.
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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
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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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