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

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right...

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right...

A house without books is like room without windows.

A house without books is like room without windows.

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...

Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men...

Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men...

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...

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...

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

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

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right...

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right...

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

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...

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...

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond...

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond...

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

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

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

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...

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

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

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

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...