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Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality read more
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.
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the read more
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery. -Horace Mann.
To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet read more
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.
We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of
reflection ought to know something about read more
Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of
reflection ought to know something about the history of the art
of printing.
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the read more
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
