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Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

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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
Alphabet
Truths
Larger
Children
Embellished
Illuminated
Fables

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The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.
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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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As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.
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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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To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
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Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
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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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