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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.
- Horace Mann Quote

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
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Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
- Horace Mann Quote

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
- Horace Mann Quote

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

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
- Horace Mann Quote

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
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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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It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.
- Horace Mann Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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.
- Horace Mann Quote

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
- Horace Mann Quote

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
- Horace Mann Quote

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
- Horace Mann Quote

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.
- Horace Mann Quote

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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Category: Scientist Quotes
Occupation: Educator
Date of Birth: May 4, 1796
Date of Death: August 2, 1859
Nationality: American





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