"Want of occupation is the bane of both……" — Horace Mann
"Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter."
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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 Bane Quotes
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Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men…
— Joseph Hall
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Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.
— Michel de Montaigne
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[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Tedium is the bane of immortality.
— Neil Lowe
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
— Olusegun Obasanjo
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O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.
— George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
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What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.
— Bias of Priene
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
— Walter Savage Landor
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The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization
— Franz Boas
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Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from…
— Chuck Baldwin
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World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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