Quotes by Horace Mann

Horace Mann

Horace Mann

American educator

Lived from: 1796 - 1859

Category: Politics Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 4 may 1796 Died: 2 august 1859

  • 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.

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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.
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  • A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
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  • Avoid witicisms at the expense of others.
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  • Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
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  • Books are not made for furniture but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house
    The Duty of Owning Books (1859)
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  • Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows.
    The Duty of Owning Books (1859)
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  • Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
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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.
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  • Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
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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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  • God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.
    The Common School Journal (15 september 1843) , Vol. V, No. 18
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  • Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
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  • I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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  • If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
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  • If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
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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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  • It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
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  • It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.
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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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What are the most famous quotes from Horace Mann?

The two most famous quotes from Horace Mann are:

  • "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."
  • "Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever."

When did Horace Mann live?

Horace Mann was born in 1796 and died in the year 1859.