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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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Interest
Poor
Men
Capital
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We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.
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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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We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.
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Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.
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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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He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
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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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There is nothing so costly as ignorance.
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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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Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring.
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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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Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind.
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Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.
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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.
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If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.
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Where a love of natural beauty has been cultivated, all nature becomes a stupendous gallery, as much superior in form and in coloring to the choicest collections of human art, as the heavens are broader and loftier than the Louvre or the Vatican.
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