Horace Mann Quotes

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

Horace Mann

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

Horace Mann

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

Horace Mann

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

Horace Mann

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.

Horace Mann

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

Horace Mann

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.

Horace Mann

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.

Horace Mann