Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence. Horace Mann More Quotes by Horace Mann More Quotes From Horace Mann It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more. Horace Mann grandparent deeds would-be It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered, amongst the multitude! Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power; and while a philosopher is discovering one new truth, millions may be propagated amongst the people. Diffusion, then, rather than discovery, is the duty of our government. Horace Mann learning wise knowledge Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects. Horace Mann youth causes time Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate! Horace Mann house giving book Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge. Horace Mann ignorant ignorance soul Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them. Horace Mann adversity mercy evil The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more. Horace Mann education giving people When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven. Horace Mann garden children knowledge Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just. Horace Mann use brave knowledge Knowledge is a mimic creation. Horace Mann creation knowledge Deeds survive the doers. Horace Mann doers survival deeds Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day. All the higher instincts of our nature prophesy its approach; and the best intellects of the race are struggling to turn that prophecy into fulfilment. Horace Mann struggle heart past Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training. Horace Mann training teaching teacher Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence reign. But in society the bars and locks have been broken; the dungeon itself is demolished; the prisoners are out; they are in the midst of us. We have no security but to teach and renovate them. Horace Mann silence broken ignorance Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. Horace Mann charity three doe Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect. Horace Mann events causes world Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to custom, which breaks the common bounds of empire, and cuts a Simplon over mountains of difficulty for its own purposes, whether of good or of evil. Horace Mann cutting evil philosophy Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring. Horace Mann ambition spring men We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast. Horace Mann pleasure No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth. Horace Mann rejoice errors self
