Horace Mann Quotes

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

Horace Mann

Truth, Greatness

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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.

Horace Mann

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.

Horace Mann

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

Horace Mann

Believe, Years, Stories

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

Horace Mann

Education, Men, Rich

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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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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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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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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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Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Horace Mann

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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There is nothing so costly as ignorance.

Horace Mann

Ignorance

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

Horace Mann

Education, People, Republic

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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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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

Life, Time, Sunset

'Lost, Two Golden Hours'

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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.

Horace Mann

Heart, Errors, Humanity

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

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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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We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

Horace Mann

Undoing

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

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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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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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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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Born: May 4, 1796
Died: August 2, 1859
Occupation: American Politician
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