Benignant Quotes by Horace Mann

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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…
• If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
• It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.
• The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
• Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best…
• False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
• After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only…
• Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.
• It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
• Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.
• Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the…
• There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread…

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