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If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.

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
Study
Public
Wish
Write
Wells
Well
Writing
Life
Streets

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The object of punishment is, prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.
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Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
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It is well to think well it is divine to act well.
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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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Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!
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Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
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The pulpit only teaches to be honest the market-place trains to overreaching and fraud and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.
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When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?
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Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.
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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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Of all rights which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.
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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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Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated.
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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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Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.
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Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind.
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Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.
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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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