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

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About Horace Mann

Portrait of Horace Mann

Horace Mann (May 4, 1796 – August 2, 1859) was an American educational reformer, abolitionist and Whig politician known for his commitment to promoting public education; he is thus also known as The Father of American Education. In 1848, after public service as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of...

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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.

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

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

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Do not think of knocking out another person’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

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People see God every day; they just don't recognize him.

—Pearl Bailey

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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

—Henry David Thoreau

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I recently invented a new theory: ambitheism. This is the doctrine that God both does and doesn't exist. I have noticed that when I try to believe in God, I am filled with sudden moments of despair that God is absent, but when I try to be an atheist, I slowly come to believe in a divine will. Thus, I have concluded that both ideas are true. God simultaneously is and isn't.

—Michael Gorelick

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The veil between us and the divine is more permeable than we imagine.

—Sue Patton Thoele

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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

—Henry David Thoreau

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