Horace Mann Quotes - Page 8

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• Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to custom, which breaks the common bounds of empire, and cuts a Simplon over mountains of difficulty for its own purposes, whether of good or of evil.

  Horace Mann

  Philosophy, Cutting, Evil

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.11

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• Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

  Horace Mann

  Book, Giving, House

  "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

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• It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

  Horace Mann

  Grandparent, Would Be, Deeds

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• No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.

  Horace Mann

  Errors, Self, Rejoice

  Horace Mann (1854). “Dedication of Antioch College, and Inaugural Address of Its President, Hon. Horace Mann: With Other Proceedings”, p.56

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• Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.

  Horace Mann

  Men, Thinking, Blood

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.210

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• As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has ratified its soundness. Two centuries proclaim it to be as wise as it was courageous, as beneficient as it was disinterested. It was one of those grand mental and moral experiments... The sincerity of our gratitude must be tested by our efforts to perpetuate and improve what they established. The gratitude of the lips only is an unholy offering.

  Horace Mann

  Christian, Wise, Gratitude

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