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Horace Mann Inspirational Quotes (111)

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Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.
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Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
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When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.
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We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end. Hence it is proper to speak of eternity as the attribute of God, but of immortality as the attribute of man.
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The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.
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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.
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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.
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He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.
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Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.
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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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There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it.
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We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.
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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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Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
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In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance.
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Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind.
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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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Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.
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Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.
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As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.
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NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the error belongs but the error becomes a model or archetype, after whose likeness the active powers of the mind create a thousand other errors.
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Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.
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Benevolence is a world of itself -- a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior.
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