Quote #25
I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Horace Mann
- He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
- If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it
- Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
- If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
- Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.
- 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.
- Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence…
- Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.