Quote #24
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
More from Horace Mann
- Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
- I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
- Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.
- If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it
- Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence…
- If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
- Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
- If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.