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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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If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.
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He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.
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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
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Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.
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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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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
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The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.
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He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.
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Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.
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Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.
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After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.
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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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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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Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
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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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