Horace Mann
"We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is."
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"We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is."
"نحن نرتب الأمور، والله يتولى الباقي. ضع قضيبًا حديديًا شرقًا وغربًا فلن يتمغنط. ضعه شمالًا وجنوبًا فيتمغنط."
Horace Mann
"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day it will make itself felt at the end of the year."
"عَوِّدْ نفسك على قراءةٍ يسيرةٍ كل يوم، ولو كانت جملةً واحدة. فإن ظفرت بخمس عشرة دقيقةً يوميًا، فستلمس أثرها البالغ في نهاية العام."
Horace Mann
"Lost yesterday somewhere between sunrise and sunset two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever."
"أضعتُ أمسِ، ما بين شروق الشمس وغروبها، ساعتين ذهبيتين، كلٌّ منهما مرصّعة بستين دقيقة ماسية. لا مكافأة تُعرض، فقد ولّتا إلى الأبد."
Horace Mann
"He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color."
"من لم يضحِّ بحاضره لمستقبل أفضل، أو بشخصي لمصلحة عامة، لا يمكنه الحديث عن السعادة إلا كما يتحدث الأعمى عن الألوان."
Horace Mann
"Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications."
"المدارس هي خط الدفاع الجمهوري الحصين."
Horace Mann
"False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse."
"الاستنتاجات الباطلة التي بُنيت على تعقّل أسوأ بما لا يُقاس من الاندفاع الأعمى."
Horace Mann
"Character is what God and the angels know of us reputation is what men and women think of us."
"الجوهر ما يعلمه الله والملائكة عنا، والسمعة ما يظنه الناس فينا."
Horace Mann
"Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both."
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
"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year."
Horace Mann
"A house without books is like a room without windows."
Horace Mann
"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever."
Horace Mann
"Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery... It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor."
Horace Mann
"Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge."
Horace Mann
"Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago."
Horace Mann
"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."
Horace Mann
"Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves."
Horace Mann
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