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• Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.

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  Rights, Attention, Command

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• The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal to us;– they implore us to think more of the character of our people than of its numbers; to look upon our vast natural resources, not as tempters to ostentation and pride, but as means to be converted by the refining alchemy of education into mental and spiritual treasures; ...and thus give to the world the example of a nation whose wisdom increases with its prosperity, and whose virtues are equal to its power.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Spiritual, Character

  "Report of an Educational Tour in Germany, and Parts of Great Britain and Ireland: Being Part of the Seventh Annual Report of Horace Mann".

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• On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it.

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  Light, Faces, Causes

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.123

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

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  Ignorance, Soul, Ignorant

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.143

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• Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.

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  Ignorance, Knowledge, Miracle

  Horace Mann (1861). “Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College”, p.69

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

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  Common Sense, Genius, Common

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.50

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• But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

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  Ignorance, Men, Ignorant

  Horace Mann (1867). “Life and Works of Horace Mann”, p.320

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• Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life.

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  Spring, Rain, Book

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.17

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• Knowledge is a mimic creation.

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  Knowledge, Creation

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.236

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• Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be any police so vigilant and effetive, for the protections of all the rights of person, property and character, as such a sound and comprehensive education and training, as our system of Common Schools could be made to impart; and would not the payment of a sufficient tax to make such education and training universal, be the cheapest means of self-protection and insurance?

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  Education, School, Character

  Massachusetts. Board of Education, Horace Mann (1849). “The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of the Tenth Annual Report of the First Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education”, p.113

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• Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.

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  Men, Occupation, Want

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• Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day. All the higher instincts of our nature prophesy its approach; and the best intellects of the race are struggling to turn that prophecy into fulfilment.

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  Struggle, Heart, Past

  Horace Mann (1895). “Helps to Self-culture”

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• The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.

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  Jesus, Real, Character

  Horace Mann (1861). “Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College”, p.221

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• I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

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  Philosophy, Phrenology, Looks

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• Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths of the crimes in the penal code would become obsolete; the long catalogue of human ills would be abridged; men would walk more safely by day; every pillow would be more inviolate by night; property, life, and character held by a stronger tenure; all rational hopes respecting the future brightened.

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  School, Character, Night

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”, p.15

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

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  Punishment, Evil, Prevention

  "Lectures and Annual Reports on Education".

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• We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.

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  Order, Iron, Doe

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.81

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• 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.

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  Reality, Men, Evil

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.215

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• 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.

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  Adversity, Evil, Mercy

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• You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

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  Inspirational, Time, May

  "Excellent Quotations for Home and School" by Julia B. Hoitt, (p. 74), 1890.

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• Love must be the same in all worlds.

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  Love, World

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.91

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• There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper.

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  Heart, Men, Hands

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”

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• Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.

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  Excellence, Records, Biographies

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.105

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

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  Education, People, Giving

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1839). “Common School Journal”

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• Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.

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  Truth, Errors, Roots

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