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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
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Streets
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He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
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We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end. Hence it is proper to speak of eternity as the attribute of God, but of immortality as the attribute of man.
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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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An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.
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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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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.
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The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
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Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.
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If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
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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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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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Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.
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The Chinese have an excellent proverb: Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
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Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.
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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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But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
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There is nothing so costly as ignorance.
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To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.
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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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