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Horace Mann Quotes
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He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead (Horace Mann Quotes)
Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain (Horace Mann Quotes)
The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled (Horace Mann Quotes)
If you wish to write well, study the life about you, life in the public streets (Horace Mann Quotes)
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge (Horace Mann Quotes)
The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves (Horace Mann Quotes)
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it (Horace Mann Quotes)
Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power (Horace Mann Quotes)
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it (Horace Mann Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Jails and state prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more you must have of the former (Horace Mann Quotes)
Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal (Horace Mann Quotes)
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen (Horace Mann Quotes)
Lost - Yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever (Horace Mann Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. We must purposely be kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart which goes out of itself gets large and full. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others (Horace Mann Quotes)
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron (Horace Mann Quotes)
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 (Horace Mann Quotes)
Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care (Horace Mann Quotes)
The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good (Horace Mann Quotes)
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one (Horace Mann Quotes)
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 (Horace Mann Quotes)
Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate! (Horace Mann Quotes)
It has long seemed to me that it would be more honorable to our ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more (Horace Mann Quotes)
Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal (Horace Mann Quotes)
In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness (Horace Mann Quotes)
Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that (Horace Mann Quotes)
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it (Horace Mann Quotes)
It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it (Horace Mann Quotes)