All Horace Mann Quotes
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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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.
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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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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
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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.
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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.
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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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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
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Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
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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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