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To know how much there is that we do not know, is one of the most valuable parts of our attainments; for such knowledge becomes both a lesson of humility and a stimulus to exertion.

— Horace Mann Lectures on Education (1855)

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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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