Tuesday, August 20, 2013

“Quotes I Like”



If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.Horace Mann (1796-1859)


Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.Horace Mann (1796-1859)


Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.Horace Mann (1796-1859)


Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.Horace Mann (1796-1859)


A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.Horace Mann (1796-1859)


Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.Horace Mann (1796-1859)


To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.Horace Mann (1796-1859)


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.Horace Mann (1796-1859)


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.Horace Mann (1796-1859)


It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.Horace Mann (1796-1859)


Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.Horace Mann (1796-1859)

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