Horace Mann, 1796 - 1859
Printed copy of a daguerreotype by Mathew Brady's studio (ca. 1849)
Born: 4 May 1796, Franklin, Massachusetts
Died: 2 August 1859, Yellow Springs, Ohio
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- A house without books is like a room without windows. permalink
Horace Mann - A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. permalink
Horace Mann - A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. permalink
Horace Mann - A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron. permalink
Horace Mann - Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. permalink
Horace Mann - As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance. permalink
Horace Mann - Thoughts (1867) - As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated. permalink
Horace Mann - Thoughts (1867) - As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them. permalink
Horace Mann - Thoughts (1867) - Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. permalink
Horace Mann - Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. permalink
Horace Mann - address at Antioch College (1859) - 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. permalink
Horace Mann - A Few Thoughts for a Young Man (1850) - Biography, especially the biography of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions from poverty and obscurity to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records. permalink
Horace Mann - Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth. permalink
Horace Mann - Books are not made for furniture but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. permalink
Horace Mann - The Duty of Owning Books (1859) - Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows. permalink
Horace Mann - The Duty of Owning Books (1859)
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