"In such a world as ours the idle……" — Horace Mann
"In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of which the English peerage is an example, and of which we are beginning to abound in specimens in this country, is only a sort of human oyster bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worms' banquet."
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108 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…
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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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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most…
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Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness…
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Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.
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Where guilty is, rage and courage doth abound.
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Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known…
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Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many…
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Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would…
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The main task for us all is that of a new evangelization aimed at helping younger generations to rediscover the…
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Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.
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