"Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow……" — Horace Mann
"Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects."
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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 Causes Quotes
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
— Richard Armour
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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the…
— Antonin Artaud
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I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
— Rowan Atkinson
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
— Saint Augustine
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the…
— Irving Babbitt
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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not…
— Edward Bach
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During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So…
— Michelle Bachelet
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