On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there. Horace Mann More Quotes by Horace Mann More Quotes From Horace Mann It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it. Horace Mann difficultdies We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end; but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end. Hence it is proper to speak of eternity as the attribute of God, but of immortality as the attribute of man. Horace Mann eternityspeakmen He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place. Horace Mann supplieserrorsdoors Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. Horace Mann heartinsanityhands Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles. Horace Mann miracleignoranceknowledge They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds. Horace Mann highwayseasierexample A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one. Horace Mann madgovernmentpeople Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes. Horace Mann amuletspoorhome Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be any police so vigilant and effetive, for the protections of all the rights of person, property and character, as such a sound and comprehensive education and training, as our system of Common Schools could be made to impart; and would not the payment of a sufficient tax to make such education and training universal, be the cheapest means of self-protection and insurance? Horace Mann educationcharacterschool Education is an organic necessity of a human being. Horace Mann humanseducationscience Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders. Horace Mann borderstakenliterature He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise. Horace Mann yieldtemptationmen Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night. Horace Mann skyinspirationalnight One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command. Horace Mann partyprincipleschange Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield. Horace Mann wheat-fieldslandbook We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence. Horace Mann undoingmissingkindness Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion. Horace Mann expansionbrainlove There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs. Horace Mann triumpherrorstruth Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected. Horace Mann neglectedwellsteaching Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain. Horace Mann thrillnervespain
