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Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
-Horace Mann
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To pity, distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
-Horace Mann, Lectures on Education (lecture VI)
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Democracy
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We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.
-Horace Mann
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Education
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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.
-Horace Mann, Twelfth Annual Report of Horace Mann as Secretary of Massachusetts State Board of Education.(1848)
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Generosity
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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.
-Horace Mann
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Habits
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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.
-Horace Mann
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Humanity
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So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be solaced and cheered by the exulting cry of triumph over some abuse in Church or State, some vice or folly in society, some false opinion or cruelty or guilt which you have overcome! And I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
-Horace Mann, the closing paragraph of his last Baccalaureate Sermon. It was given to the students of Antioch College in 1859. http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/texts/jburnett/eshm/ESHM.HTM
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Ignorance & Stupidity
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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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Prison
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Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
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Punctuality
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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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Reading
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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.
-Horace Mann
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Time
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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.
-Horace Mann
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Truth
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Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
-Horace Mann
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