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Horace Mann Quotes

«Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind»
«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.»
«Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.»
«A house without books is like room without windows»
Author: Horace Mann | Keywords: rooming house, windows
«If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it»
Author: Horace Mann | Keywords: idiot
«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.»
Author: Horace Mann | About: Reading, Time | Keywords: edge, edge in, fifteen, resolve, sentence
«Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.»
«Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it»
Author: Horace Mann | About: Habit | Keywords: cable, cables, thread, weave
«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.»
Author: Horace Mann | Keywords: diamond, offered, sixty, sunset
«If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both»
Author: Horace Mann | Keywords: ask for

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