Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Quote by Horace Mann

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If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men...

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men...

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

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

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

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but...

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but...

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and...

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and...

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel...

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel...

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last...

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last...

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last...

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last...

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of...

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of...

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may...

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may...

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

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

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single...

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single...

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us...

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us...

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the...

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the...

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

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

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death;...

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death;...

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right...

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right...

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh...

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh...