Horace Mann Quotes

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

Truth, Find, Greatness

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
Horace Mann

Education, Human, Until

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

Teacher, Learn, Desire

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

Sunrise, Lost, Two

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

Happen, Give, Wait

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

Humanity, Die, Victory

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.
Horace Mann

Children, Means, Books

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, Great, Men

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
Horace Mann

Cannot, Last, Break

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
Horace Mann

Less, Schools, Former

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

Fear, Heart, Child

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

Education, Political, Outside

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Horace Mann

Knowledge, Power, True

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
Horace Mann

Manners, Mature, Morals

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

Teacher, Learn, Desire

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
Horace Mann

Nothing, Others, Ourselves

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

Good, Evil, Often

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

Time, Money, Person

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
Horace Mann

Good, God, Evil

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

Life, Death, Fear

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
Horace Mann

Truth, Forget, Him

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.
Horace Mann

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

Truth, Lost, Light

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

Sunrise, Two, Between

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

Education, Best, Alone

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: May 4, 1796

Died: August 2, 1859

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