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Horace Mann Quotations

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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.
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
Be ashamed to die unless you have won some victory for humanity.
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Horace Mann - address at Antioch College
US educator
1796 - 1859
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.
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

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