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• Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily be, may become the most effective and benignant of all the forces of civilization. Two reasons sustain this position. In the first place, there is a universality in its operation, which can be affirmed of no other institution whatever... And, in the second place, the materials upon which it operates are so pliant and ductile as to be susceptible of assuming a greater variety of forms than any other earthly work of the Creator.

  Horace Mann

  School, Civilization, Two

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• Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young.

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  Reform, Sage, Young

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.28

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• You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.

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  Truth, Needs, Knows

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

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• When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

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  Education, School, Spurs

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• Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.

  Horace Mann

  Excellence, Records, Biographies

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.105

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• Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

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  Heart, Hands, Insanity

  Horace Mann (1867). “Lectures and Annual Reports on Education”, p.325

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• A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.

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  Government, People, Mad

  Horace Mann (1868). “Annual reports on education (ed. by mrs. M. Mann).”, p.687

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• Just in proportion as a man becomes good, divine, Christ-like, he passes out of the region of theorizing, of system-building, and hireling service, into the region of beneficent activities. It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.

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  Men, Thinking, Christ

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

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• The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.

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  Teaching, Training, Example

  Horace Mann (1857). “Demands of the Age on Colleges”, p.46

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• Education is an organic necessity of a human being.

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  Education, Science, Humans

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.235

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• On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it.

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  Light, Faces, Causes

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.123

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• 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.

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  Pain, Men, Soul

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

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• God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.

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  Lines, Crooked, Straight Lines

  "The Common School Journal", Vol. V, No. 18, September 15, 1843.

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

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  Ignorance, Soul, Ignorant

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

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• Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be any police so vigilant and effetive, for the protections of all the rights of person, property and character, as such a sound and comprehensive education and training, as our system of Common Schools could be made to impart; and would not the payment of a sufficient tax to make such education and training universal, be the cheapest means of self-protection and insurance?

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  Education, School, Character

  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.113

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• Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

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  Doe, Three, Charity

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.214

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• He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

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  Men, Yield, Temptation

  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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• Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.

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  Love, Brain, Expansion

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

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• Knowledge is a mimic creation.

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  Knowledge, Creation

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.236

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• The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal to us;– they implore us to think more of the character of our people than of its numbers; to look upon our vast natural resources, not as tempters to ostentation and pride, but as means to be converted by the refining alchemy of education into mental and spiritual treasures; ...and thus give to the world the example of a nation whose wisdom increases with its prosperity, and whose virtues are equal to its power.

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  Education, Spiritual, Character

  "Report of an Educational Tour in Germany, and Parts of Great Britain and Ireland: Being Part of the Seventh Annual Report of Horace Mann".

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• But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

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  Ignorance, Men, Ignorant

  Horace Mann (1867). “Life and Works of Horace Mann”, p.320

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• He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

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  Men, Temptation, Temptation Life

  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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• Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

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  Time, Causes, Youth

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.98

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• Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.

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  Eye, Ears, Observation

  "Every Other Sunday Vol. 23" The Unitarian Sunday-School Society, (p. 19), 1907.

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• Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day. All the higher instincts of our nature prophesy its approach; and the best intellects of the race are struggling to turn that prophecy into fulfilment.

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  Struggle, Heart, Past

  Horace Mann (1895). “Helps to Self-culture”

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