"Let us labor for that larger comprehension of……" — Horace Mann
"Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments."
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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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More Ascending Quotes
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To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science.…
— Humphry Davy
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Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between heaven and earth.
— Albert Schweitzer
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Remember that in ascending to the Father You could not leave us orphans; And in making yourself a prisoner on…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Whoever considers the Attributes of Allaah to be like the attributes of the creation, such that the Istawaa of Allaah…
— Ibn Taymiyyah
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Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end…
— Raymond Queneau
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NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity.…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Quiet solitude is a nutritional need of the ascending body.
— Doreen Virtue
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It is in the union of the Ascending and the Descending currents that harmony is found, and not in any…
— Ken Wilber
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An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you…
— Abraham Isaac Kook
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Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim…
— Margaret Caroline Anderson
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