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From Quotes by Horace Mann
- After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds…
- There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and…
- The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never be made impulsive to good.
- Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .
- Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of…
- He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.
- When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin…
- Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from…
- 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…
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