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Horace Mann Quotes


An American education reformer, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1827 to 1833.
Horace Mann (May 4, 1796 – August 2, 1859) was an American education reformer, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1827 to 1833. He served in the Massachusetts Senate from 1834 to 1837. In 1848, after serving as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education since its creation, he was elected to the US House of Representatives. Mann was a brother-in-law to author Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Here are some famous quotes by Horace Mann. 

Avoid witticisms at the expense of Others.

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Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

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To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

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

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

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

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Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

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Virtue is an angel but she is a blind one and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

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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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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.

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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

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Lost yesterday somewhere between sunrise and sunset two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day it will make itself felt at the end of the year.