"It is well to think well; it is…" — Horace Mann

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

— Horace Mann

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108 Quotes by Horace Mann

Horace Mann has 108 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human…
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate…
The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss…
False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of…
Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.
Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something…
There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds…

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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