Horace Mann Quotes
An American education reformer and abolitionist.
(1796 - 1859)
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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. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.
[Books]
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A human being is not, in any proper sense, a human being till he is educated.
[Education]
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A 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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Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.
[Temperance]
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Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. - It is a quickener of devotion.
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Avoid witticisms at the expense of Others.
[Wit]
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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
[One Day]
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Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. - Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.
[Biography]
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Books are not made for furniture but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows.
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Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.
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Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
[Opinion]
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Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
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Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
[Education]
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Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
[Education]
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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]
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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
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Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
[Decisions]
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From the prevalent state of the mind, actions proceed, as water rises from a fountain.
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