Horace Mann - Soul Quotes

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The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.

Horace Mann

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up all the vacuities of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

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When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.

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Man... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.

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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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There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.

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The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains.

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