"The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious……" — Horace Mann
"The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man."
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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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