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.

Quote by Horace Mann

Topics: Death Quotes

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last...

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last...

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel...

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel...

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last...

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last...

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last...

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last...

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single...

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single...

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of...

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of...

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men...

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men...

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us...

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us...

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and...

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and...

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality...

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality...

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

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