When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

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"Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care."

- Horace Mann

Compassion

"Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land, as the sower sows his wheat-field."

- Horace Mann

Vision

"Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever."

- Horace Mann

Time Management

"Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen."

- Horace Mann

Determination

"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery."

- Horace Mann

Education

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"Beauty is a gentle and loving heart."

- Beauty and the Beast

Compassion

"There is no greater beauty than kindness and compassion."

- Beauty and the Beast

Compassion

"Selflessness is the most beautiful trait one can possess."

- Beauty and the Beast

Compassion

"A kind heart can bring light to the darkest of places."

- Beauty and the Beast

Compassion

"In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us."

- Flora Edwards

Compassion