"I look upon Phrenology as the guide to……" — Horace Mann
"I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor."
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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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More Benefactor Quotes
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When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He…
— Thomas Adams
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Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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In our desire to have government become our benefactor and sustainer, we have allowed it to become our taskmaster and…
— Chuck Baldwin
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The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as…
— R. J. Hollingdale
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One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is…
— Charles Dickens
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I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they…
— Al Capone
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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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First, therefore, [the Jew] goes about making up to the people for his previous sins against them. He begins his…
— Adolf Hitler
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Some people point to me as the cause of all society's problems, others as if I am the benefactor, responsible…
— Hugo Chavez
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A benefactor is a representative of God.
— Benjamin Whichcote
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It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to…
— Thomas Traherne
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