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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  2. Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something. - Audrey Niffenegger

  3. Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better. - Flannery OConnor

  4. Know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it. - Nora Roberts

  5. What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? - Robert H. Schuller

More Quotes By Horace Mann
  1. Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

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

  3. 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.

  4. Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

  5. 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.

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