If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge. Horace Mann More Quotes by Horace Mann More Quotes From Horace Mann In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education of the people in all his plans of administration. He may have eloquence, he may have a knowledge of all history, diplomacy, jurisprudence; and by these he might claim, in other countries, the elevated rank of a statesman: but unless he speaks, plans, labors, at all times and in all places, for the culture and edification of the whole people, he is not, he cannot be, an American statesman. Horace Mann names men country The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action. Horace Mann chinese speech action Just in proportion as a man becomes good, divine, Christ-like, he passes out of the region of theorizing, of system-building, and hireling service, into the region of beneficent activities. It is well to think well. It is divine to act well. Horace Mann men christ thinking There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper. Horace Mann heart men hands Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated. Horace Mann retiring be-careful rooms The false man is more false to himself than to any one else. He may despoil others, but himself is the chief loser. The world's scorn he might sometimes forget, but the knowledge of his own perfidy is undying. Horace Mann might men world NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the error belongs; but the error becomes a model or archetype, after whose likeness the active powers of the mind create a thousand other errors. Horace Mann errors mind lying On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it. Horace Mann causes light faces Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth. Horace Mann truth mind water Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an alarm bell, whose melancholy sounds may reverberate through eternity. Like the sudden, sharp cry of "Fire!" under our windows by night, it should rouse us to instantaneous action, and brace every muscle to its highest tension. Horace Mann fire evil night Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism. Horace Mann atheism heart heaven The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart. Horace Mann clear-head wine heart Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications. Horace Mann republican lines education Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be. Horace Mann practice education children Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect. Horace Mann intellect morality men Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students. Horace Mann emulation students praise 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. Horace Mann iron doe order God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked. Horace Mann straight-lines crooked lines Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach. Horace Mann ignorance mean country It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it. Horace Mann difficult dies
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