I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
Horace Mann Quotes
1796–1859 United States
Horace Mann (4 May 1796 – 2 August 1859) was an American education reformer and abolitionist.
- United States
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- Educators
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- Unitarians
Also known as: Mann, Horace
71 quotes
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
A Few Thoughts for a Young Man (1850)
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Address at Antioch College (1859)
We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.
Thoughts (1901)
Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.
Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)
The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Lectures on Education (1855)
Be sure of the fact, before you lose time in searching for a cause.
Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)
Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Lectures on Education (1855)
Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)
Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)
Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)
From the prevalent state of the mind, actions proceed, as water rises from a fountain.
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)
Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)
Attribution
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