22 quotes by Horace Mann

Art and Culture
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
3.7 · 24 votes · 179 reads
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Government and Politics
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
4.6 · 33 votes · 185 reads
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Virtues
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.
5.0 · 40 votes · 4 reads
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Various
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
3.4 · 36 votes · 172 reads
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Nature
I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
4.3 · 11 votes · 40 reads
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Various
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
4.1 · 56 votes · 98 reads
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Thought and Reason
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
3.1 · 58 votes · 6 reads
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Defects
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
3.8 · 21 votes · 168 reads
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Virtues
It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.
3.4 · 38 votes · 154 reads
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Art and Culture
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.
3.5 · 63 votes · 10 reads
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Various
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.
4.0 · 5 votes · 185 reads
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Various
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
3.1 · 46 votes · 16 reads
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Thought and Reason
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
3.1 · 33 votes · 167 reads
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Art and Culture
Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.
4.8 · 63 votes · 113 reads
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Virtues
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
4.5 · 38 votes · 167 reads
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Time
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
5.0 · 44 votes · 84 reads
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Virtues
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
4.7 · 39 votes · 93 reads
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