Quote by Horace Mann
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. – Horace Mann

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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it. – Horace Mann

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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. – Horace Mann

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Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a persons money as his time. – Horace Mann

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations. – Patrick Henry Pearse

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads havent been cut off. – E. M. Cioran

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning. – Indira Gandhi

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