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School is the cheapest police.

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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
Cheapest
Police
School

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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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Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.
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A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.
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Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
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The Chinese have an excellent proverb: Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
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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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Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.
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Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles on the inside of it are science and no miracles.
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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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Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!
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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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The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.
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It is well to think well it is divine to act well.
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We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.
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When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.
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Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders.
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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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One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.
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Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.
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