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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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Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
-Horace Mann
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More will sometimes be demanded of you than is reasonable. Bear it meekly, and exhaust your time and strength in performing your duties, rather than in vindicating your rights. Be silent, even when you are misrepresented. Turn aside when opposed, rather than confront opposition with resistance. Bear and forbear, not defending yourselves, so much as trusting to your works to defend you. Yet, in counselling you thus, I would not be understood to be a total non-resistant;a perfectly passive, non-elastic sand-bag, in society; but I would not have you resist until the blow be aimed, not so much at you, as, through you, at the sacred cause of human improvement, in which you are engaged,a point at which forbearance would be allied to crime.
-Horace Mann
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Action(s)
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
-Horace Mann
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Character
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It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.
-Horace Mann
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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 is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
-Horace Mann
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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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If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
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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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Humor
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Avoid witicisms at the expense of others.
-Horace Mann
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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.
-Horace Mann
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Manners
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Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
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Martyr, Martyrdom
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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
-Horace Mann
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Morals
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Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.
-Horace Mann
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Power
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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
-Horace Mann
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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.
-Horace Mann
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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.
-Horace Mann
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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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Reform, Correction
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When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
-Horace Mann
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Teaching
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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
-Horace Mann
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Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.
-Horace Mann
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