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The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to over-reaching and fraud; and "teaching" has not a tithe of the efficiency of "training". Christ never wrote a "Tract" in his life, but he went about doing good.

— Horace Mann

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

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

The laws of nature are sublime, but there is a moral sublimity before which the highest intelligences must kneel and adore.

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)

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