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Wells Quotes by Horace Mann
- Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.
- Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.
- Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence reign. But in…
- Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.
- 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.
- It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.
- You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
- It is well when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered amongst the multitudes.…
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