Horace Mann

Also known as Captain Horace Mann

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Also known as Captain Horace Mann

Notable quotes

“If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.”
— Journal entry (29 October 1838)
“Observation — activity of both eyes and ears.”
— As quoted in Every Other Sunday Vol. 23 (1907) by The Unitarian Sunday-School Society, p. 19
“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.”
— Lecture 6
“When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.”
— p. 116; sometimes paraphrased as: "When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
“It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.”
— p. 213
“Let us labor for that larger and larger comprehension of truth, that more and more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.”
— p. 240

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