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: Benevolence Quotes, Generosity Quotes, Pride Quotes

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...

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

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...

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

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

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...

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but...

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but...

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and...

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and...

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

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...

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...

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...

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

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

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

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

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

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.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to...

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to...

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but...

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but...

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

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

The main thing is keeping the main thing the main thing.

The main thing is keeping the main thing the main thing.

If someone whom you lent money and wonâ€™t pay you back will always hate you.

If someone whom you lent money and wonâ€™t pay you back will always hate you.