Quotes by Horace Mann

"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."

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"To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike."

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"Evil and good are God's right hand and left."

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"Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both."

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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."

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"Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power."

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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."

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"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."

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"Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise."

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"If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both."

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"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge."

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"Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity."

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"A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated."

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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."

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