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"From the time I accepted the secretaryship in June, 1837, until May, 1848, when I tender ed my resignation of it, I labored in this cause an average of not less than fifteen hours a day; from the beginning to the end of this period I never took a single day for relaxation, and months and months together passed without my withdrawing a single evening to call upon a friend." What a splendid record of hard and intelligent work!
 
"From the time I accepted the secretaryship in June, 1837, until May, 1848, when I tender ed my resignation of it, I labored in this cause an average of not less than fifteen hours a day; from the beginning to the end of this period I never took a single day for relaxation, and months and months together passed without my withdrawing a single evening to call upon a friend." What a splendid record of hard and intelligent work!
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==Later life==
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==Later life and legacy==
 
In 1848 Horace Mann was elected to Congress to fill the unexpired vacancy caused by the death of John Quincy Adams. Four years later he became president of Antioch College, at Yellow Springs, in Ohio, and here he died on the second day of August in the year 1859, at the age of sixty three.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=whRQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA728 Presbyterian Banner, Volume 89]</ref>
 
In 1848 Horace Mann was elected to Congress to fill the unexpired vacancy caused by the death of John Quincy Adams. Four years later he became president of Antioch College, at Yellow Springs, in Ohio, and here he died on the second day of August in the year 1859, at the age of sixty three.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=whRQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA728 Presbyterian Banner, Volume 89]</ref>
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In 1865, a statue was dedicated to Horace Mann, opposite a statue of [[Daniel Webster]].<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/1865/07/06/news/a-statue-of-horace-mann-regatta-on-the-charles-river.html A Statue of Horace Mann Regatta on the Charles River], [[The New York Times]]</ref>
    
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