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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 goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy. This is the great

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 goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

Horace Mann
Heart, Helping Others, Self

So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be solaced and cheered by the exulting cry of triumph over some abuse in Church or State, some vice or folly in society, some false opinion or cruelty or guilt which you have overcome! And I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Horace Mann
Heart, Errors, Humanity
Joy Elmer Morgan, Horace Mann, Eleanor Craven Fishburn (1938). “Horace Mann at Antioch”

If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.

Horace Mann
Heart, Sacrifice, Toil
Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”

There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper.

Horace Mann
Heart, Men, Hands
Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”

The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart.

Horace Mann
Heart, Wine, Clear Head

Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism.

Horace Mann
Heart, Heaven, Atheism
Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.178

When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.

Horace Mann
Children, Grief, Heart
"Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann" edited by Mary Mann, (p. 116), 1872.

Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Horace Mann
Heart, Hands, Insanity
Horace Mann (1867). “Lectures and Annual Reports on Education”, p.325

Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day. All the higher instincts of our nature prophesy its approach; and the best intellects of the race are struggling to turn that prophecy into fulfilment.

Horace Mann
Struggle, Heart, Past
Horace Mann (1895). “Helps to Self-culture”

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