Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night. Horace Mann More Quotes by Horace Mann More Quotes From Horace Mann Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that. Horace Mann instincthabitovercoming The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known. Horace Mann realcharacterjesus Some languages are musical in themselves, so that it is pleasant to hear any one read or converse in them, even though we do not understand a word that we hear.... Others are full of growling, snarling, hissing sounds, as though wild beasts and serpents had first taught the people to speak. Horace Mann musicalpeoplefirsts The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters-where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies. Horace Mann yieldlawfall To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is. Horace Mann machinesofficeknows Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the accumulated waters caused by the obstructions which an ultra conservatism has thrown across the stream of progress; and revolution itself is but the sudden overwhelming and sweeping away of impediments that should have been seasonably removed. Horace Mann raceshould-haveopposites Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error. Horace Mann errorstruthroots Where a love of natural beauty has been cultivated, all nature becomes a stupendous gallery, as much superior in form and in coloring to the choicest collections of human art, as the heavens are broader and loftier than the Louvre or the Vatican. Horace Mann naturalheavenart In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness. Horace Mann middlefashiondresses If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education. It has intrinsic and indestructible merits. It holds the welfare of mankind in its embrace, as the protecting arms of a mother hold her infant to her bosom. The very ignorance and selfishness which obstructs its path are the strongest arguments for its promotion, for it furnishes the only adequate means for their removal. Horace Mann ignorancemothereducation Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good. Horace Mann mercurymedicinecriticism The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good. Horace Mann trainingexampleteaching To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, stand upon the immutable and everlasting principles of equal and exact justice. The days of unrequited labor are numbered with the past. Fugitive slave laws are only remembered as relics of that barbarism which John Wesley pronounced "the sum of all villainies," and whose knowledge of its blighting effects was matured by his travels in Georgia and the Carolinas. Horace Mann lawlakespast He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Horace Mann temptation-lifetemptationmen A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart. Horace Mann teachingdesireteacher Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter. Horace Mann occupationwantmen Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing. Horace Mann girlartschool If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail. Horace Mann temperancefailingifs Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life. Horace Mann rainspringbook Benevolence is a world of itself -- a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior. Horace Mann richesleaguegathering
