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You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.

You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.

Horace Mann
Cost, May, Praise

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

Horace Mann
Tongue, Expenses

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.

Horace Mann
Philosophy, Cutting, Evil
Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.11

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.

Horace Mann
Men, Thinking, Blood
Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.210

As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has ratified its soundness. Two centuries proclaim it to be as wise as it was courageous, as beneficient as it was disinterested. It was one of those grand mental and moral experiments... The sincerity of our gratitude must be tested by our efforts to perpetuate and improve what they established. The gratitude of the lips only is an unholy offering.

Horace Mann
Christian, Wise, Gratitude

Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths of the crimes in the penal code would become obsolete; the long catalogue of human ills would be abridged; men would walk more safely by day; every pillow would be more inviolate by night; property, life, and character held by a stronger tenure; all rational hopes respecting the future brightened.

Horace Mann
School, Character, Night
Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”, p.15

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