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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
Capital
Education
Rich
Interest
Poor
Men

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There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.
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A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.
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The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.
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Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.
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Keep one thing in view forever- the truth and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.
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Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
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You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it but let all you tell be truth.
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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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Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.
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It is well to think well it is divine to act well.
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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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A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.
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Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.
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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
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Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles on the inside of it are science and no miracles.
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The object of punishment is, prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.
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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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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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Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.
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