Horace Mann

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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Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. ↗

— Horace Mann

#best #conduct #education #enjoyment #infinite

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. ↗

— Horace Mann

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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. ↗

— Horace Mann

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. ↗

— Horace Mann

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

— Horace Mann

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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. ↗

— Horace Mann

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Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. ↗

— Horace Mann

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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. ↗

— Horace Mann

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