Horace Mann

Puzzles

• Ignorance breeds ___ to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
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• Doing ___ for others is the undoing of ourselves.
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• ___ are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Horace Mann?

  • → Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
  • → Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
  • → He is a writer for the ages — the ages of four to eight.
  • → There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to 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.
  • → Do one thing every day that scares you.
  • → I am pleased to believe that you like the piece almost as much as I do myself.
  • → Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Horace Mann.

  • → To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
  • → As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
  • → You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
  • → A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
  
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