Horace Mann Quotes
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The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
[Teaching]
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To know how much there is that we do not know, is one of the most valuable parts of our attainments; for such knowledge becomes both a lesson of humility and a stimulus to exertion.
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To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
[Beneficence]
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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.
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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]
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Virtue is an angel; but she is a blind one and must ask of knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal. Mere knowledge, on the other hand, like a Swiss mercenary, is ready to combat either in the ranks of sin or under the banners of righteousness - ready to forge cannon balls or to print New Testaments, to navigate a corsair's vessel or a missionary ship.
[Virtue]
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We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.
[Majority]
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We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.
[Means]
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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.
[Children]
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You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth.
[Truth]
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