Horace Mann Quotes

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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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  Education, Men, Balance

  Horace Mann (1872). “Annual Reports on Education”, p.669

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

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  Life, Death, Badass

  Massachusetts. Board of Education, Horace Mann (1838). “Annual Report, Together with the Report of the Secretary of the Board: (1837-1841)”

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• We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.

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  Kindness, Missing, Undoing

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

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  Education, Inspire, Height

  "Words for Teachers to Live By". Book by Mary Engelbreit, 2002.

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• Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

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  Heart, Helping Others, Self

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

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  Truth, Greatness

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  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.

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  Thinking, Years, Brain

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.212

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• A house without books is like a room without windows.

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  Life, Happiness, Attitude

  "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

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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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  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

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  Believe, Years, Stories

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• The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.

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  Leadership, Helping Others, Self Help

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

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  Education, Safety, Political

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.220

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• As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.

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  Education, Apples, Educated

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.81

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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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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.225

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• If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.

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  Heart, Sacrifice, Toil

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”

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• Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.

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  Truth, Water, Mind

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• We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.

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  Insane, Majority, Vote

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.184

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• There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.

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  Education, Teacher, Children

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1839). “Common School Journal”

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• The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

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  Chinese, Speech, Action

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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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  Inspirational, Education, School

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.112

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• We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

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  Undoing

  "Thoughts" by Jessie K. Freeman and Sarah S. B. Yule, (p. 83), 1901.

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• Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.

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  Education, Men, Rich

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• There is nothing so costly as ignorance.

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  Ignorance

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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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  Inspirational, Success, Reading

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”

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• Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.

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  Men, Views, Forever

  Horace Mann (1871). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its Twenty-ninth Anniversary”, p.80

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