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Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Topic: Balance
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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Topic: Death / Immortality
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Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Topic: Education
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Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery. -Horace Mann.
Topic: Education
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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.
Topic: Generosity
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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.
Topic: Generosity
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Ignorance
Source: Lectures on Education (lecture VI)
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We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.
Topic: Majority
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Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
Topic: Manners
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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
Topic: Martyr
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Observation--activity of both eyes and ears.
Topic: Observation
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To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Topic: Philanthropy
Source: Lectures on Education (lecture VI)
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Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of
reflection ought to know something about the history of the art
of printing.
Topic: Printing
Source: The Common School Journal (February, 1943, Printing and Paper Making)
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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.
Topic: Punctuality
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He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
Topic: Temptation
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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
Topic: Time
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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. -Horace Mann.
Topic: Time
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