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“Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.”

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Horace Mann, an American politician born on May 4, 1796 and died on August 2, 1859, played a significant role in the reform of American education and is known as the father of public education in the United States. more

“The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains.”

Men Doe Soul Body Seems Pain Pleasure Existence Mere Charity Lives Of Others Benevolent Identifying Reflexes Migrate Prolonging

Book:Lectures and Annual Reports on Education

Source: Lectures and Annual Reports on Education

“Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.”

Book Done Jesus Christ Cities Christianity Written Streets Jesus Christ Library Deeds Satan Reign Great Book City Streets

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.”

Men Circumstances Characteristics Great Men Superiority Prominent

Author:Horace Mann

“Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.”

People Thinking Men Water Differences Blood Machines Mills

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy; laws are manners fully grown,--or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws.”

Children Law Grows Growing Up Roots Manners Branches Infancy Trunks Archetype

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education of the people in all his plans of administration. He may have eloquence, he may have a knowledge of all history, diplomacy, jurisprudence; and by these he might claim, in other countries, the elevated rank of a statesman: but unless he speaks, plans, labors, at all times and in all places, for the culture and edification of the whole people, he is not, he cannot be, an American statesman.”

Source: Lectures on Education

“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.”

Mind Philosophy Purpose Evil Energy Common Break Cutting Mountain Difficulty Bounds Empires Customs Eulogy Captivity Prodigals Ransom

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“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.”

Men Firsts Humans Desire Effort Conditions Human Nature Ambition Spring Capacity Constitution Slavery Enterprise Snaps

Book:Slavery

Source: Slavery

“The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.”

Action Speech Chinese Excellent Modest

Author:Horace Mann

“Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an alarm bell, whose melancholy sounds may reverberate through eternity. Like the sudden, sharp cry of "Fire!" under our windows by night, it should rouse us to instantaneous action, and brace every muscle to its highest tension.”

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Author:Horace Mann

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