Quote #21

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

More from Horace Mann

  1. Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
  2. Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.
  3. Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men -the balance wheel of the social machi…
  4. Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
  5. Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
  6. He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
  7. Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
  8. I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

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