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• Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.

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  Men, Occupation, Want

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• Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.

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  Ignorance, Knowledge, Miracle

  Horace Mann (1861). “Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College”, p.69

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• It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

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  Grandparent, Would Be, Deeds

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• Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

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  Book, Giving, House

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

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• Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.

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  Girl, Art, School

  "Printing and Paper Making". The Common School Journal Vol. V, No. 3, February 1, 1843.

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• Some languages are musical in themselves, so that it is pleasant to hear any one read or converse in them, even though we do not understand a word that we hear.... Others are full of growling, snarling, hissing sounds, as though wild beasts and serpents had first taught the people to speak.

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  People, Musical, Firsts

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.54

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• Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders.

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  Taken, Borders, Literature

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.105

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• Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.

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  Love, Home, Fire

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

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• Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.

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  Pain, Nerves, Thrill

  Horace Mann (1859). “Lectures on Various Subjects”, p.43

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• Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the accumulated waters caused by the obstructions which an ultra conservatism has thrown across the stream of progress; and revolution itself is but the sudden overwhelming and sweeping away of impediments that should have been seasonably removed.

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  Should Have, Opposites, Race

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• There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it.

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  Work, Race, Employment

  Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.47

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• No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.

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  Errors, Self, Rejoice

  Horace Mann (1854). “Dedication of Antioch College, and Inaugural Address of Its President, Hon. Horace Mann: With Other Proceedings”, p.56

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• We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.

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  Pleasure

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• Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.

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  Overcoming, Habit, Instinct

  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.81

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• In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.

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  Fashion, Dresses, Middle

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.112

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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. It has intrinsic and indestructible merits. It holds the welfare of mankind in its embrace, as the protecting arms of a mother hold her infant to her bosom. The very ignorance and selfishness which obstructs its path are the strongest arguments for its promotion, for it furnishes the only adequate means for their removal.

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  Education, Mother, Ignorance

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.7

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• If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.

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  Failing, Temperance, Ifs

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• Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.

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  Common Sense, Genius, Common

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.50

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• Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life.

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  Spring, Rain, Book

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.17

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• As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has ratified its soundness. Two centuries proclaim it to be as wise as it was courageous, as beneficient as it was disinterested. It was one of those grand mental and moral experiments... The sincerity of our gratitude must be tested by our efforts to perpetuate and improve what they established. The gratitude of the lips only is an unholy offering.

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  Christian, Wise, Gratitude

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• To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, stand upon the immutable and everlasting principles of equal and exact justice. The days of unrequited labor are numbered with the past. Fugitive slave laws are only remembered as relics of that barbarism which John Wesley pronounced "the sum of all villainies," and whose knowledge of its blighting effects was matured by his travels in Georgia and the Carolinas.

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  Past, Lakes, Law

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• Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated.

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  Rooms, Be Careful, Retiring

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• You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.

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  Cost, May, Praise

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• Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

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  Children, Fables, Alphabet

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• Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

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  Tongue, Expenses

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