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American Politician

Horace Mann, an American politician born on May 4, 1796 and died on August 2, 1859, played a significant role in the reform of American education and is known as the father of public education in the United States.

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Famous Horace Mann Quotes

“Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.”

Truth Grows Roots Errors Surface Seeming

Author:Horace Mann

“New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.”

Truth Stars Shining Constellations Firmament

Book:Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...

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“Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.”

Mind Body Truth Water

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“Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.”

Truth Greatness

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“Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.”

Light Truth Science Found Lost Walks Moral Air Divine Walking Truth Is Breathe Paradise Marvelous Scientific Truth

Book:A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary

Source: A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary

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

Ifs Men Truth Asks Forget Greatness Achieve Greatness Greatness Of Man

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“There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.”

Truth Pleasure Crosses Errors Following Deeper Celebrate Triumph Joining Mingling

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.”

Truth Mankind Development Labor Errors Series Comprehension Thorough Ascending

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“You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.”

Knows Needs Truth

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About the Author

Born: May 4, 1796
Died: August 2, 1859
Known for: American Politician
Quotes: 181

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ThoughtsRelated source material

Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...Related source material

Common School JournalRelated source material

A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th AnniversaryRelated source material

Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch CollegeRelated source material

Lectures on EducationRelated source material

Lecture on educationRelated source material

Lectures on Various SubjectsRelated source material

The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of the Tenth Annual Report of the First Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of EducationRelated source material

Annual reports on education (ed. by mrs. M. Mann).Related source material

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