Quote

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.

Horace Mann

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Horace Mann
Age: 63 †
Born: 1796
Born: May 4
Died: 1859
Died: August 2
American Politician
Lawyer
Politician
University Teacher
Franklin
Massachusetts
Two
Golden
Time
Yesterday
Sunrise
Life
Somewhere
Diamond
Minutes
Sixty
Forever
Sunset
Gone
Offered
Hours
Reward
Lost
Rewards

More quotes by Horace Mann

Image
You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing it encourages much.
Horace Mann
Image
As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.
Horace Mann
Image
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
Horace Mann
Image
Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.
Horace Mann
Image
Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.
Horace Mann
Image
Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.
Horace Mann
Image
Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.
Horace Mann
Image
We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.
Horace Mann
Image
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. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.
Horace Mann
Image
When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.
Horace Mann
Image
Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.
Horace Mann
Image
Of all rights which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.
Horace Mann
Image
He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.
Horace Mann
Image
There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper.
Horace Mann
Image
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.
Horace Mann
Image
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
Image
Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring.
Horace Mann
Image
Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind.
Horace Mann
Image
The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.
Horace Mann
Image
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