You need not tell the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth.
More Quotes from Horace Mann:
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.Horace Mann
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
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
Horace Mann
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Horace Mann
Habit is a cable we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.
Horace Mann
The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal to us they implore us to think more of the character of our people than of its vast numbers to look upon our vast natural resources, not as tempters to ostentation and pride, but as means to be converted, by the refining alchemy of education, into mental and spiritual treasuresand thus give to the world the example of a nation whose wisdom increases with its prosperity, and whose virtues are equal to its power.
Horace Mann
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