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Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men. — Horace Mann

Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error. — Horace Mann

They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds. — Horace Mann

Love
that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home
sometimes burns at unholy altars. — Horace Mann

True glory is a flame lighted at the skies. — Horace Mann

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. — Horace Mann

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. — Horace Mann

Evil and good are God's right hand and left. — Horace Mann

Love must be the same in all worlds. — Horace Mann

We do ourselves the most good doing something for others. — Horace Mann

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. — Horace Mann

Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect. — Horace Mann

Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects. — Horace Mann

Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be. — Horace Mann

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just. — Horace Mann

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. — Horace Mann

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. — Horace Mann

School is the cheapest police. — Horace Mann

Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young. — Horace Mann

He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place. — Horace Mann

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. — Horace Mann

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge. — Horace Mann

Republics, one after another ... have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people ... — Horace Mann

Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes. — Horace Mann

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. — Horace Mann

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. — Horace Mann

If any man seeks greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. — Horace Mann

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. — Horace Mann

New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation. — Horace Mann

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth. — Horace Mann

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. — Horace Mann

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. — Horace Mann

In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness. — Horace Mann

Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter. — Horace Mann

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal. — Horace Mann

Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated. — Horace Mann

As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance. — Horace Mann

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. — Horace Mann

Observation - activity of both eyes and ears. — Horace Mann

Knowledge is a mimic creation. — Horace Mann

We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast. — Horace Mann

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. — Horace Mann

Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice. — Horace Mann

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others. — Horace Mann

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge. — Horace Mann

As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated. — Horace Mann

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both." -- Horace Mann — Andy McWain

Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence. — Horace Mann

Praise begets emulation,
a goodly seed to sow among youthful students. — Horace Mann

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. — Horace Mann

Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children. — Horace Mann

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart. — Horace Mann

Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man. — Horace Mann

A house without books is like a room without windows. — Horace Mann

The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves. — Horace Mann

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate! — Horace Mann

Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth. — Horace Mann

If you wish to write well, study the life about you,
life in the public streets. — Horace Mann

You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much. — Horace Mann

To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is. — Horace Mann

Education is an organic necessity of a human being. — Horace Mann

No man has the right to bring up children without surrounding them with books. — Horace Mann

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable. — Horace Mann

We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence. — Horace Mann

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse. — Horace Mann

Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind. — Horace Mann

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care. — Horace Mann

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. — Horace Mann

Deeds survive the doers. — Horace Mann

No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth. — Horace Mann

If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail. — Horace Mann

Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal. — Horace Mann

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect. — Horace Mann

A HABIT IS A CABLE; WE WEAVE A THREAD EACH DAY, AND AT LAST WE CANNOT BREAK IT." - Horace Mann — Jack Canfield

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. — Horace Mann

The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;
not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known. — Horace Mann

God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked. — Horace Mann

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. — Horace Mann

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen — Horace Mann

Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training. — Horace Mann

The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled. — Horace Mann

Until you have done something for humanity," wrote the great American educator Horace Mann, "you should be ashamed to die. — Christopher Hitchens

Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism. — Horace Mann

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor. — Horace Mann

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. — Horace Mann

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. — Horace Mann

If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen. — Horace Mann

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more. — Horace Mann

There is nothing so costly as ignorance. — Horace Mann

Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect. — Horace Mann

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never be made impulsive to good. — Horace Mann

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land, as the sower sows his wheat-field. — Horace Mann

Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that. — Horace Mann

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause. — Horace Mann

It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it. — Horace Mann

Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion. — Horace Mann

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications. — Horace Mann

It is well to think well: it is divine to act well. — Horace Mann

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power. — Horace Mann

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. — Horace Mann