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Horace Mann Quotes

«Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery.»
«If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.»
Author: Horace Mann | About: Evil | Keywords: accountable, nay, remediable
«A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.»
«Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.»
«Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.»
«Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.»
«Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.»
«Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.»
Author: Horace Mann
«Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications»
«Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.»
Author: Horace Mann | About: Habit | Keywords: cable, cables, thread, weave

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