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

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  Inspiring, Forgiveness, Compassion

  Horace Mann (1845). “Lectures on Education”, p.297

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.

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  Truth Is, True Religion, Variance

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.78

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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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• 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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• 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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• Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .

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  Education, People, Republic

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• It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

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  Soul, Energy, Martyr

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.213

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• So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be solaced and cheered by the exulting cry of triumph over some abuse in Church or State, some vice or folly in society, some false opinion or cruelty or guilt which you have overcome! And I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

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  Heart, Errors, Humanity

  Joy Elmer Morgan, Horace Mann, Eleanor Craven Fishburn (1938). “Horace Mann at Antioch”

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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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• 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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• Truths, no matter how momentous or enduring, are nothing to the individual until he appreciates them, and feels their force, and acknowledges their sovereignty. He cannot bow to their majesty until he sees their power. All the blind then, and all the ignorant--that is, all the children--must be educated up to the point of perceiving and admitting the truth, and acting according to its mandates.

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  Children, Appreciate, Ignorant

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

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• In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Color

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.49

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• Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

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  Thank You, Teacher, Teaching

  "The Quotable Teacher" by Randy Howe, (p. 67), 2006.

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• The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.

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  Weed, Men, Hands

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• Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

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  Perseverance, Sacrifice, Self

  Horace Mann (1861). “Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College”, p.313

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• Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.

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  Education, Mean, Science

  Horace Mann (1957). “The Republic and the School: The Education of Free Men”

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