Horace Mann Quotes

• 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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• A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

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• Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

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

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

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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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• Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

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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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• 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.

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• 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.

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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.

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

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

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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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• 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.

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• Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

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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.

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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.

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• It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

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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.

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Birth:	4th May, 1796
Death:	2nd August, 1859
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Educator, Politician

About

Horace Mann was born in Franklin, Massachusetts, USA. He was an American politician and educator. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He served in the Massachusetts State legislature from 1827–37. He served as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education. He was a tutor of Latin and Greek and a librarian at Brown University. During 1822, he also studied at Litchfield Law School.

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