The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, nor judge of a road till it draw to the end. — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
... every man on the planet Has just as much right as yourself to the road. — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
For peace do not hope; to be just you must break it. Still work for the minute and not for the year. — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
When honor comes to you, be ready to take it; But reach not to seize it before it is near. — John Boyle O'Reilly Honor Copy Share Image
No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white. — John Boyle O'Reilly Burden Copy Share Image
For the love that is purest and sweetest Has a kiss of desire on the lips. — John Boyle O'Reilly Desire Copy Share Image
The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ. — John Boyle O'Reilly Cautious Copy Share Image
Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great… — John Boyle O'Reilly Great music Copy Share Image
The adoption of gloves for all contests will do more to preserve the practice of boxing than any other conceivable means. It… — John Boyle O'Reilly Adoption Copy Share Image
Well blest is he who has a dear one dead; A friend he has whose face will never change- A dear communion… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that human right… — John Boyle O'Reilly Freedom Copy Share Image
You gave me the key of your heart, my love; Then why did you make me knock? Oh that was yesterday, saints… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Women are at once the guardians and the well-spring of the world's faith, morality, and tenderness; and if ever they are degraded… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The brutalities of a fight with bare hands, the crushed nasal bones, maimed lips, and other disfigurements, which call for the utter… — John Boyle O'Reilly Abolition Copy Share Image
The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew… — John Boyle O'Reilly Antithesis Copy Share Image
It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to… — John Boyle O'Reilly Admiration Copy Share Image
“A White Rose The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O the red rose is a… — John Boyle O'Reilly Dove Copy Share Image
Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore. — John Boyle O'Reilly Flying Copy Share Image
Loyalty is the greatest quality of the human heart. — John Boyle O'Reilly Excellence Copy Share Image
With the advance of feudalism came the growth of iron armor, until, at last, a fighting-man resembled an armadillo. — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the… — John Boyle O'Reilly Beautiful rose Copy Share Image
Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end. — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
