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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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The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. – 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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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. – Horace Mann

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. – Arthur Schnitzler

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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

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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