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Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy laws are manners fully grown,--or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws.
Horace Mann
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Horace Mann
Age: 63 †
Born: 1796
Born: May 4
Died: 1859
Died: August 2
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Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
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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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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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Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.
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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
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The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.
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When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.
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When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.
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