Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

Horace Mann's Popular Quotes

If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.

- Horace Mann

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

- Horace Mann

A house without books is like a room without windows.

- Horace Mann

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

- Horace Mann

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

- Horace Mann

The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.

- Horace Mann

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that…

- Horace Mann

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

- Horace Mann

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

- Horace Mann