Horace Mann Quotes - Page 2

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• Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .

  Horace Mann

  Education, People, Republic

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• Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.

  Horace Mann

  Men, Views, Forever

  Horace Mann (1871). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its Twenty-ninth Anniversary”, p.80

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• To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

  Horace Mann

  Inspiring, Forgiveness, Compassion

  Horace Mann (1845). “Lectures on Education”, p.297

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• Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

  Horace Mann

  Moral, Mature, Manners

  Massachusetts. Board of Education, Horace Mann (1849). “The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of the Tenth Annual Report of the First Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education”, p.80

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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.

  Horace Mann

  Heart, Sacrifice, Toil

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”

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• So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be solaced and cheered by the exulting cry of triumph over some abuse in Church or State, some vice or folly in society, some false opinion or cruelty or guilt which you have overcome! And I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

  Horace Mann

  Heart, Errors, Humanity

  Joy Elmer Morgan, Horace Mann, Eleanor Craven Fishburn (1938). “Horace Mann at Antioch”

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• Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

  Horace Mann

  Motivational, Positive, Happiness

  "Graded Selections for Memorizing : Adapted for Use at Home and in School" by John Bradley Peaslee, (p. 104), 1880.

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• 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

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• Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

  Horace Mann

  Men, Characteristics, Circumstances

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• School is the cheapest police.

  Horace Mann

  School, Police

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• Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

  Horace Mann

  Compassion, Helping Others, Help And Support

  "Thoughts" by Jessie K. Freeman and Sarah S. B. Yule, (p. 83), 1901.

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• When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

  Horace Mann

  Education, Mother, Children

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• On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

  Horace Mann

  Ignorance, World, Entering

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.103

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• After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.

  Horace Mann

  Children, School, Two

  Horace Mann (1868). “Annual reports on education (ed. by mrs. M. Mann).”, p.365

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• It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.

  Horace Mann

  Difficult, Dies

  Horace Mann (1861). “Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College”, p.313

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• We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

  Horace Mann

  Parent, Sacred, Causes

  Horace Mann (1845). “Lectures on Education”, p.184

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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. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

  Horace Mann

  Love, Children, Growing Up

  "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

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• Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Mean, Science

  Horace Mann (1957). “The Republic and the School: The Education of Free Men”

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• We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.

  Horace Mann

  Kindness, Missing, Undoing

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• If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.

  Horace Mann

  Use, Dozen, Express Yourself

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.212

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• Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

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  Mind, Firsts, Influence

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.10

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• They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.

  Horace Mann

  Example, Easier, Highways

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.70

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• The false man is more false to himself than to any one else. He may despoil others, but himself is the chief loser. The world's scorn he might sometimes forget, but the knowledge of his own perfidy is undying.

  Horace Mann

  Men, Might, World

  Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.70

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• He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

  Horace Mann

  Errors, Doors, Supplies

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

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• In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of which the English peerage is an example, and of which we are beginning to abound in specimens in this country, is only a sort of human oyster bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worms' banquet.

  Horace Mann

  Country, Men, Oysters

  Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.49

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