"Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both."
-Horace Mann
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"The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.“
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"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."
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"To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike."
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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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"If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both."
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