Horace Mann quotes

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. (Horace Mann)
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. View quote
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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. View quote
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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. View quote
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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever. View quote
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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. View quote
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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. View quote
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Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge. View quote
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Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. View quote
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Habit is a cable we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. View quote
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Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. (Horace Mann)
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. View quote
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Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. View quote
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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. View quote
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If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable. View quote
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Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. View quote
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Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. View quote
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Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. View quote
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Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care. View quote
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Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. View quote
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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. (Horace Mann)
It is well to think well; it is divine to act well. View quote
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Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. View quote
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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. View quote
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Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate. View quote
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