Horace Mann Quotes - Page 8

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• Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to custom, which breaks the common bounds of empire, and cuts a Simplon over mountains of difficulty for its own purposes, whether of good or of evil.

  Horace Mann

  Philosophy, Cutting, Evil

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.11

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• Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind.

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  Mind

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.195

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• Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.

  Horace Mann

  Men, Thinking, Blood

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.210

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• In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance.

  Horace Mann

  Moving, Unbroken, Pagan

  Horace Mann (1852). “Two Lectures on Intemperance: The effects of intemperance on the poor and ignorant. The effects of intemperance on the rich and educated. I.. II.”, p.74

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• Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.

  Horace Mann

  Emulation, Students, Praise

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• So multifarious are the different classes of truths, and so multitudinous the truths in each class, that it may be undoubtingly affirmed that no man has yet lived who could so much as name all the different classes and subdivisions of truths, and far less anyone who was acquainted with all the truths belonging to any one class. What wonderful extent, what amazing variety, what collective magnificence! And if such be the number of truths pertaining to this tiny ball of earth, how must it be in the incomprehensible immensity!

  Horace Mann

  Men, Class, Names

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.61

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