Horace Mann Quotes
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Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
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Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
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Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.
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Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
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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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Deeds survive the doers.
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It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.
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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
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Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.
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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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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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Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.
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Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.
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Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
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Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
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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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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.
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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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We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.
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The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
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Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.
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If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.
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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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They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.
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On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.
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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
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The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.
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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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One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.
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Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.
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