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Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.Horace Mann
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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.Horace Mann
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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.Horace Mann
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Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.Horace Mann
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Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery... It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.Horace Mann
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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
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A house without books is like a room without windows.Horace Mann
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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. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.Horace Mann
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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.Horace Mann
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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 happenHorace Mann
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Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.Horace Mann
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Character is what God and the angels know of us reputation is what men and women think of us.Horace Mann
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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.Horace Mann
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Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.Horace Mann
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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.Horace Mann
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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
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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.Horace Mann
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We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.Horace Mann
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To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.Horace Mann
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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.Horace Mann
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The object of punishment is prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.Horace Mann
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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
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Virtue is an angel but she is a blind one and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.Horace Mann
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Avoid witticisms at the expense of Others.Horace Mann
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The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.Horace Mann
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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
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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.Horace Mann
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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.Horace Mann
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To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.Horace Mann
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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.Horace Mann
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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.Horace Mann
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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
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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.Horace Mann
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Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.Horace Mann
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Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.Horace Mann