"Habit is a cable; we weave a thread……" — Horace Mann
"Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it."
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108 Quotes by Horace Mann
Horace Mann has 108 quotes on this site.
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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human…
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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
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It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate…
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The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
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Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss…
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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
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After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of…
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Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.
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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
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Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.
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Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something…
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There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds…
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I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help…
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Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where…
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Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.
— Michelle Bachelet
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As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New…
— Kevin Bacon
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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those…
— Russell Baker
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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that…
— Russell Baker
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Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
— Drew Barrymore
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people.…
— Bob Beauprez
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness…
— Joseph Addison
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God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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