Horace Mann - Lectures on Education (1845)

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

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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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To know how much there is that we do not know, is one of the most valuable parts of our attainments; for such knowledge becomes both a lesson of humility and a stimulus to exertion.

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The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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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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The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains.

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