Horace Mann Short Quotes

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God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.

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Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.

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I hold Education to be an organic necessity of a human being.

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

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He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead.

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Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

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Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure can also agonize with pain.

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

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Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.

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Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

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Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

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Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.

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Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.

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It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.

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To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.

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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

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Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.

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The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

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Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

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The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.

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He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

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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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Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.

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He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. He is wanting in the highest attributes of humanity.

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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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Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

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