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A man must have a heart before he can feel, as he must have eyes before he can see.
Said by
Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Mann asserts that one must possess emotional capacity to truly understand and feel, drawing a parallel to the necessity of physical senses.

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