A house without books is like a room without windows.
Horace MannTags: books simile house windows
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
Horace MannTags: intelligence knowledge opinion growth conflict
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Horace MannTags: humanity death victory accomplishment achievement
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
Horace MannTags: past time live-in-the-moment
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
Horace MannTags: inspirational compassion humanity greed charity helping-others volunteerism
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen
Horace MannTags: action
Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.
Horace MannTags: education
We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.
Horace MannIt is well to think well: it is divine to act well.
Horace MannIgnorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
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