Horace Mann Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

  Horace Mann

  Ignorance, Soul, Ignorant

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.143

• There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1839). “Common School Journal”

• It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

  Horace Mann

  Soul, Energy, Martyr

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.213

• When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.

  Horace Mann

  Children, Knowledge, Garden

  Horace Mann (2008). “Slavery”, p.149, Applewood Books

• Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.

  Horace Mann

  God, Religious, Taken

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.13

• The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.

  Horace Mann

  Men, Soul, Conscious

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1839). “Common School Journal”

• The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains.

  Horace Mann

  Pain, Men, Soul

  Horace Mann (1867). “Lectures and Annual Reports on Education”, p.209

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