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

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  • 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.
    A Beautiful Thought… we clip from an exchange paper Universalist Union (16 March 1844)
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  • Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
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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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  • Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
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  • Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.
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  • Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
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  • To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
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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.
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  • 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.
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  • A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
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