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We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. As Satan said, "Evil, be thou my good," so they say, "Darkness, be thou my light." (Horace Mann)
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. He is wanting in the highest attributes of humanity. View quote
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Physics is the Science of Matter; Metaphysics the Science of Mind - the Science of Being, apart from accidents and properties - Ontology. View quote
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So much, then, my friends, is done, in the common and established course of nature, for the welfare of our children. Nature supplies a perennial force, unexhausted, inexhaustible, re-appearing whenever and wherever the parental relation exists. We, then, who are engaged in the sacred cause of education, are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause; and, just as soon as we can make them see the true relation in which they and their children stand to this cause, they will become advocates for its advancement, more ardent and devoted than ourselves. View quote
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Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training. View quote
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It is well when the wise and the learned discover new truths but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered amongst the multitudes. Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power and while a philosopher is discovering one new truth, millions of truths may be propagated amongst the people.... The whole land must be watered with the streams of knowledge. View quote
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In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color. View quote
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We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. View quote
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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. View quote
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Deeds survive the doers. View quote
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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)
Avoid witicisms at the expense of others. View quote
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Beneficence is godlike, and he who does most good to his fellow-man is the Master of Masters, and has learned the Art of Arts. Enrich and embellish the universe as you will, it is only a fit temple for the heart that loves truth with a supreme love. Inanimate vastness excites wonder; knowledge kindles admiration, but love enraptures the soul. Scientific truth is marvellous, but moral truth is divine; and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light, has found the lost paradise. For him, a new heaven and a new earth have already been created. His home is the sanctuary of God, the Holy of Holies. View quote
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Whether a young man shall reap pleasure or pain from winning the objects of his choice, depends, not only upon his wisdom or folly in selecting those objects, but upon the right or wrong methods by which he pursues them. View quote
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To know how much there is that we do not know, is one of the most valuable parts of our attainments; for such knowledge becomes both a lesson of humility and a stimulus to exertion. View quote
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The most ignorant are the most conceited. View quote
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Dynasties and governments used to be attacked and defended by arms; now the attack and the defence are mainly carried on by types. View quote
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The laws of nature are sublime, but there is a moral sublimity before which the highest intelligences must kneel and adore. View quote
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Books are not made for furniture but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. View quote
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The heart can put on charms which no beauty of known things, nor imagination of the unknown, can aspire to emulate. Virtue shines in native colors, purer and brighter than pearl, or diamond, or prism, can reflect. View quote
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Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows. (Horace Mann)
The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. View quote
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From the prevalent state of the mind, actions proceed, as water rises from a fountain. View quote
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I affirm, in words as true and literal as any that belong to geometry, that the man who withholds knowledge from a child not only works diabolical miracles for the destruction of good, but for the creation of evil also. View quote
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The intellectual and moral nature of man is the one thing precious in the sight of God. View quote
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