"We do ourselves the most good doing something…" — Horace Mann

"We do ourselves the most good doing something for others."

— 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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Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten. — J. J. Abrams
I also have this incredible love for women. — Kevyn Aucoin

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