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• The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

  Horace Mann

  Punishment, Evil, Prevention

  "Lectures and Annual Reports on Education".

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• There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper.

  Horace Mann

  Heart, Men, Hands

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

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• Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence reign. But in society the bars and locks have been broken; the dungeon itself is demolished; the prisoners are out; they are in the midst of us. We have no security but to teach and renovate them.

  Horace Mann

  Ignorance, Broken, Silence

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.118

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• Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.

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  Inspirational, Night, Sky

  Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.72

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• The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.

  Horace Mann

  Ambition, Men, Devil

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• Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an alarm bell, whose melancholy sounds may reverberate through eternity. Like the sudden, sharp cry of "Fire!" under our windows by night, it should rouse us to instantaneous action, and brace every muscle to its highest tension.

  Horace Mann

  Night, Fire, Evil

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• The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

  Horace Mann

  Education, People, Giving

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

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• Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.

  Horace Mann

  Teaching, Neglected, Wells

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.226

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• Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Errors, Roots

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• When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.

  Horace Mann

  Children, Grief, Heart

  "Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann" edited by Mary Mann, (p. 116), 1872.

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• Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism.

  Horace Mann

  Heart, Heaven, Atheism

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.178

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• Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

  Horace Mann

  Men, Morality, Intellect

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.219

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• Benevolence is a world of itself -- a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior.

  Horace Mann

  League, Riches, Gathering

  Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.76

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• Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy; laws are manners fully grown,--or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws.

  Horace Mann

  Children, Growing Up, Law

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.117

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• The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart.

  Horace Mann

  Heart, Wine, Clear Head

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• There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Errors, Triumph

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.27

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• You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

  Horace Mann

  Inspirational, Time, May

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

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• If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Greatness, Men

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• Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Children, Practice

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

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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

  Children, Book, Mean

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

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• To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.

  Horace Mann

  Office, Machines, Knows

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.114

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• NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the error belongs; but the error becomes a model or archetype, after whose likeness the active powers of the mind create a thousand other errors.

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  Lying, Errors, Mind

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.69

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• Where a love of natural beauty has been cultivated, all nature becomes a stupendous gallery, as much superior in form and in coloring to the choicest collections of human art, as the heavens are broader and loftier than the Louvre or the Vatican.

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  Art, Heaven, Natural

  Horace Mann (1859). “Lectures on Various Subjects”, p.49

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• In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.

  Horace Mann

  Running, Children, Race

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.222

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• If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge.

  Horace Mann

  Knowledge, Childhood, Burning

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.12

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