Horace Mann quotes - page 2

Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms. (Horace Mann)
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge. View quote
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Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments. View quote
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Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. View quote
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If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. View quote
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To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. View quote
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Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach. View quote
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If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education. View quote
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Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect. View quote
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The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good. View quote
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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. (Horace Mann)
God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked. View quote
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Evil and good are God's right hand and left. View quote
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We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is. View quote
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Observation - activity of both eyes and ears. View quote
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You need not tell the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth. View quote
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Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. View quote
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A house without books is like a room without windows. View quote
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We do ourselves the most good doing something for others. View quote
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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. View quote
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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. (Horace Mann)
Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate! View quote
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Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing. View quote
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Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us. View quote
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts. View quote
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