American - Educator | May 4, 1796 - August 2, 1859
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
Horace Mann
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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
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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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Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
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It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.
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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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Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
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Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
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Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
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If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
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To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
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