| 21 Famous Quotes by Horace Mann
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“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.”
Houses Quotes |
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“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind”
Mankind Quotes |
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“Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.”
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“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind”
Victory Quotes |
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“To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.”
Philanthropy Quotes Source: Lectures on Education (lecture VI)
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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.”
Printing Quotes Source: The Common School Journal (February, 1943, Printing and Paper Making)
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“But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he
is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of
universal knowledge.”
Ignorance Quotes Source: Lectures on Education (lecture VI)
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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.”
Generosity Quotes |
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“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.”
Balance Quotes |
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“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
Death / immortality Quotes |
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“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.”
Education Quotes |
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“Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery. -Horace Mann.”
Education Quotes |
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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.”
Generosity Quotes |
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“We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.”
Majority Quotes |
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“Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.”
Manners Quotes |
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“It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.”
Martyr Quotes |
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“Observation--activity of both eyes and ears.”
Observation Quotes |
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“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.”
Punctuality Quotes |
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“He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.”
Temptation Quotes |
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“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.”
Time Quotes |
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“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.”
Time Quotes |
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Horace Mann Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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