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• Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion.

  Horace Mann

  Science, Mind, Principles

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.41

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• Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

  Horace Mann

  Money, Honesty, Integrity

  "Excellent Quotations for Home and School" by Julia B. Hoitt, (p. 74), 1890.

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• 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

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• A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

  Horace Mann

  Teacher, Teaching, Desire

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• False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

  Horace Mann

  Blind, Impulse, Conclusion

  Horace Mann (1855). “Lectures on Education”, p.123

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• Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.

  Horace Mann

  Medicine, Criticism, Mercury

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.211

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• The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters-where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies.

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  Fall, Yield, Law

  Horace Mann (1861). “Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College”, p.184

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• We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end; but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end. Hence it is proper to speak of eternity as the attribute of God, but of immortality as the attribute of man.

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  Men, Speak, Eternity

  Horace Mann (1861). “Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College”, p.246

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• One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.

  Horace Mann

  Change, Party, Principles

  Horace Mann (1851). “Slavery: Letters and Speeches”, p.387

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• Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

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  Knowledge, Brave, Use

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.15

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• Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Lines, Republican

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”, p.271

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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.

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Errors, Development

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.240

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• Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

  Horace Mann

  Death, Fear, Pride

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.211

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• As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.

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  Knowledge, Generations, World

  Horace Mann (1859). “Lectures on Various Subjects”

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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.

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Science, Air

  Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.38

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• The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.

  Horace Mann

  Jesus, Real, Character

  Horace Mann (1861). “Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College”, p.221

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• I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

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  Philosophy, Phrenology, Looks

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• 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”

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• Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths of the crimes in the penal code would become obsolete; the long catalogue of human ills would be abridged; men would walk more safely by day; every pillow would be more inviolate by night; property, life, and character held by a stronger tenure; all rational hopes respecting the future brightened.

  Horace Mann

  School, Character, Night

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”, p.15

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• He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead.

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  Law, Ideas, Welcome

  Horace Mann (1849). “Speech of Hon. Horace Mann, of Massachusetts, on Slavery and the Slave-trade in the District of Columbia: Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, February 23, 1849”, p.23

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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.

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  Order, Iron, Doe

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.81

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• If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

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  Reality, Men, Evil

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.215

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• Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

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  Adversity, Evil, Mercy

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• Love must be the same in all worlds.

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  Love, World

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.91

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• Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.

  Horace Mann

  Rights, Attention, Command

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