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• Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.

  Horace Mann

  Jesus, Book, Cities

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.192

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• Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

  Horace Mann

  Life, Time, Sunset

  'Lost, Two Golden Hours'

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• It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

  Horace Mann

  Courage, Character, Thinking

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.199

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• In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education of the people in all his plans of administration. He may have eloquence, he may have a knowledge of all history, diplomacy, jurisprudence; and by these he might claim, in other countries, the elevated rank of a statesman: but unless he speaks, plans, labors, at all times and in all places, for the culture and edification of the whole people, he is not, he cannot be, an American statesman.

  Horace Mann

  Country, Men, Names

  Horace Mann (1845). “Lectures on Education”, p.162

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• Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

  Horace Mann

  Knowledge, Humans, Human Power

  Horace Mann (1840). “Lecture on education”, p.58

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• Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

  Horace Mann

  Inspirational, Success, Reading

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

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• Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

  Horace Mann

  Teacher, Teaching, Training

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• Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.

  Horace Mann

  Genius, May, Patient

  "Many Thoughts of Many Minds : A Treasury Of Quotations From The Literature Of Every Land And Every Age" edited by Louis Klopsch, 1896.

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• New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.

  Horace Mann

  Stars, Truth, Shining

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.59

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• It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered, amongst the multitude! Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power; and while a philosopher is discovering one new truth, millions may be propagated amongst the people. Diffusion, then, rather than discovery, is the duty of our government.

  Horace Mann

  Wise, Learning, Knowledge

  "Lectures on Education".

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• Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

  Horace Mann

  Angel, Goal, Pathways

  Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.10

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• Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Quality, Infinite

  Horace Mann (1840). “Lecture on education”, p.59

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• Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.

  Horace Mann

  Events, World, Causes

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

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• Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring.

  Horace Mann

  Spring, Ambition, Men

  Horace Mann (2008). “Slavery”, p.33, Applewood Books

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• In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

  Horace Mann

  Inspirational, Happiness, Color

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.49

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• Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

  Horace Mann

  Book, Wheat Fields, Land

  "Horace Mann at Antioch".

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• Truths, no matter how momentous or enduring, are nothing to the individual until he appreciates them, and feels their force, and acknowledges their sovereignty. He cannot bow to their majesty until he sees their power. All the blind then, and all the ignorant--that is, all the children--must be educated up to the point of perceiving and admitting the truth, and acting according to its mandates.

  Horace Mann

  Children, Appreciate, Ignorant

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

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• Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

  Horace Mann

  Perseverance, Sacrifice, Self

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

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• As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.

  Horace Mann

  Truth Is, True Religion, Variance

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.78

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• If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.

  Horace Mann

  Writing, Wish, Study

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• Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of laws written on parchment, will be as vain as to put up printed notices in an orchard to keep off the canker-worms.

  Horace Mann

  Apples, Law, Effort

  "The Albany Law Journal", Vol. XLIX, (p. 47), January - June 1894.

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• The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.

  Horace Mann

  Weed, Men, Hands

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• Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.

  Horace Mann

  Home, Amulets, Poor

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.201

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• An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.

  Horace Mann

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• True glory is a flame lighted at the skies.

  Horace Mann

  Flames, Sky, Glory

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