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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
Men
Capital
Education
Rich
Interest
Poor

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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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He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
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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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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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As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.
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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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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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The object of punishment is, prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.
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When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?
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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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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
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Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.
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Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
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The Chinese have an excellent proverb: Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
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Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders.
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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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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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Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.
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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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In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance.
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